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Probing the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Mao, Yao-Yuan; Adhikari, Susmita; Armstrong, Robert; Banerjee, Arka; Banik, Nilanjan; Bechtol, Keith; Bird, Simeon; Boddy, Kimberly K; Bonaca, Ana; Bovy, Jo; Buckley, Matthew R; Bulbul, Esra; Chang, Chihway; Chapline, George; Cohen-Tanugi, Johann; Cuoco, Alessandro; Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan; Dawson, William A; Rivero, Ana Díaz; Dvorkin, Cora; Erkal, Denis; Fassnacht, Christopher D; García-Bellido, Juan; Giannotti, Maurizio; Gluscevic, Vera; Golovich, Nathan; Hendel, David; Hezaveh, Yashar D; Horiuchi, Shunsaku; Jee, M James; Kaplinghat, Manoj; Keeton, Charles R; Koposov, Sergey E; Lam, Casey Y; Li, Ting S; Lu, Jessica R; Mandelbaum, Rachel; McDermott, Samuel D; McNanna, Mitch; Medford, Michael; Meyer, Manuel; Marc, Moniez; Murgia, Simona; Nadler, Ethan O; Necib, Lina; Nuss, Eric; Pace, Andrew B; Peter, Annika HG; Polin, Daniel A; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda; Read, Justin I; Rosenfeld, Rogerio; Shipp, Nora; Simon, Joshua D; Slatyer, Tracy R; Straniero, Oscar; Strigari, Louis E; Tollerud, Erik; Tyson, J Anthony; Wang, Mei-Yu; Wechsler, Risa H; Wittman, David; Yu, Hai-Bo; Zaharijas, Gabrijela; Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine; Annis, James; Birrer, Simon; Biswas, Rahul; Blazek, Jonathan; Brooks, Alyson M; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Caputo, Regina; Charles, Eric; Digel, Seth; Dodelson, Scott; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua; Gawiser, Eric; Hearin, Andrew P; Hložek, Renee; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jeltema, Tesla E; Koushiappas, Savvas M; Lisanti, Mariangela; LoVerde, Marilena; Mishra-Sharma, Siddharth; Newman, Jeffrey A; Nord, Brian; Nourbakhsh, Erfan; Ritz, Steven; Robertson, Brant E; Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A; Slosar, Anže; Tait, Tim MP; Verma, Aprajita; Vilalta, Ricardo; Walter, Christopher W; Yanny, Brian; Zentner, Andrew R
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Astrophysical and cosmological observations currently provide the onlyrobust, empirical measurements of dark matter. Future observations with LargeSynoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide necessary guidance for theexperimental dark matter program. This white paper represents a communityeffort to summarize the science case for studying the fundamental physics ofdark matter with LSST. We discuss how LSST will inform our understanding of thefundamental properties of dark matter, such as particle mass, self-interactionstrength, non-gravitational couplings to the Standard Model, and compact objectabundances. Additionally, we discuss the ways that LSST will complement otherexperiments to strengthen our understanding of the fundamental characteristicsof dark matter. More information on the LSST dark matter effort can be found athttps://lsstdarkmatter.github.io/ .