Direct search of dark matter is expanding its search phase space. This lecture will cover the concepts, current status, and prospects of the dark matter direct searches including related topics.
Stars can be powerful laboratories to constrain the properties of low-mass particles such as neutrinos, axions, dark photons, low-mass dark-matter candidates, and others. This lecture will mainly focus on the back-reaction on stellar properties caused by the emission of new particles, so we will explain some of the basics of stellar evolution theory. We will also review some old and new limits...
