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CCAPP Seminar: "Hidden sectors and dark matter" Jessie Shelton (UIUC)

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November 29, 2016
11:30AM - 12:30PM
PRB 4138

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-29 11:30:00 2016-11-29 12:30:00 CCAPP Seminar: "Hidden sectors and dark matter" Jessie Shelton (UIUC) The lack of experimental signals of WIMP dark matter to date has brought hidden sector dark matter models into sharp focus: a broad and general class of theories where the relic abundance of dark matter is determined through its interactions with other dark fields, rather than directly with the Standard Model. I'll point out that the existence of an internally thermalized hidden sector places new requirements on early universe cosmology, and talk about physical consequences from two possible scenarios for the origin of a dark sector. PRB 4138 Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) ccapp@osu.edu America/New_York public

The lack of experimental signals of WIMP dark matter to date has brought hidden sector dark matter models into sharp focus: a broad and general class of theories where the relic abundance of dark matter is determined through its interactions with other dark fields, rather than directly with the Standard Model. I'll point out that the existence of an internally thermalized hidden sector places new requirements on early universe cosmology, and talk about physical consequences from two possible scenarios for the origin of a dark sector.

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