Cameron Keenan with Lawrence Krauss

Halo Signatures in Dark Matter Detection

 Matter plays a crucial role in the nature of the universe.  Features such as the expansion rate of the universe and the value of Einstein’s Cosmological Constant are determined by the amount of matter present in the universe.  If dark matter exists it will have a profound affect on physics.  Up to this point no accurate measue of the local expansion rate of our galaxy has been recorded.  It is our goal to measure this expansion rate and examine the affect that this value plays on the believed distribution of dark matter in the universe.