NEXT ELUSIVES WEBINAR: "New Directions for Thermal Dark Matter"

Julio 7, 2020
De 3:00pm hasta 4:00pm

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Specialist level
Speaker: 
Juri Smirnov
Institution: 
Ohio State U.
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Abstract: 

Thermal production mechanisms are a highly predictive framework in the dark matter model space. Charting possible realizations is important, as it leads to insights that guide experimental efforts to fully test particle dark matter. I will discuss bound-state formation effects that can affect the thermal relic abundance and lead to new dark matter scenarios and signatures. I will also present a novel thermal dark matter production mechanism, that can lead to monoenergetic electron recoils in laboratory experiments, for example XENON1T.