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SUMMARY:Colliders to the Cosmos: Dark Matter and Electroweak Phase Tra
 nsition\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Maxim Perelstein
 \, Cornell
DESCRIPTION:Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin 
 in the second half of this year. This machine\, along with the propose
 d International Linear Collider (ILC)\, will directly probe physics at
  the TeV energy scale. The discoveries and measurements made by these 
 experiments can have interesting implications for cosmology. I will di
 scuss two examples of this connection. First\, if dark matter is compo
 sed of weakly interacting massive particles\, these particles may be d
 irectly produced and studied at the LHC and the ILC. Second\, precise 
 measurements of the Higgs boson properties may allow us to understand 
 the dynamics of the electroweak phase transition in the early universe
 \, with important implications for baryogenesis. In both cases\, I wil
 l stress the aspects of the connection that do not depend on the (pres
 ently unknown) details of the fundamental theory at the TeV scale. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1176
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