FPD Seminar

Theories of Light Dark Matter and Their Connection to Intensity Experiments

by Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

America/Los_Angeles
51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium

SLAC

150
Description

Theories of weak scale dark matter are becoming increasingly squeezed by probes from direct and indirect detection and from the LHC. On the other hand, well-motivated theories of dark matter (such as Asymmetric Dark Matter) predict dark matter well below the weak scale, in some cases with mass around the proton mass. These particles typically must interact with dark forces, and the interactions with this dark force may give observable signatures at intensity experiments. We make explicit connections between intensity experiments and cosmological signatures for these dark matter candidates.