What is WIMP? SUSY?
WIMP stands for weakly interacting massive particle, a possible candidate for a dark matter particle. It’s heavy, about 100Gev scale, and quite stable. WIMPs are predicted by a variety of SUSY(supersymmetry) theories. A lot of WIMPs clustering together resulting having dark matter in the Universe.
I wanna tell a bit about SUSY. It’s a fancy mathematical theory which basically states that every particle has a partner with different spin. Particles responsible for fundamental forces, like gravity, electromagnetism and so on (we call them bosons) accompanied by particles which are taking care of regular matter (call them fermions). SUSY makes beautiful derivation of the dark matter existence and possible particle candidate (in SUSY it’s called the neutralino). So now, you are already familiar with supersymmetry and how it is related to dark matter and possible dark matter particles.
WIMP stands for weakly interacting massive particle, a possible candidate for a dark matter particle. It’s heavy, about 100Gev scale, and quite stable. WIMPs are predicted by a variety of SUSY(supersymmetry) theories. A lot of WIMPs clustering together resulting having dark matter in the Universe.
I wanna tell a bit about SUSY. It’s a fancy mathematical theory which basically states that every particle has a partner with different spin. Particles responsible for fundamental forces, like gravity, electromagnetism and so on (we call them bosons) accompanied by particles which are taking care of regular matter (call them fermions). SUSY makes beautiful derivation of the dark matter existence and possible particle candidate (in SUSY it’s called the neutralino). So now, you are already familiar with supersymmetry and how it is related to dark matter and possible dark matter particles.