2026 DCPIHEP WORKSHOP - 20th Year Anniversary

Session

Plenary XI

14 Jan 2026, 12:30

Ex Hacienda de Nogueras

10. New Thermal Decoupling Windows to the Dark Sector

Patrick Fitzpatrick (Instituto de Física UNAM)

14/01/2026, 12:30

Increasingly strong experimental constraints on new physics at the electroweak scale motivate us to explore new possibilities for dark matter (DM) beyond the thermal weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm. One important strategy to excavate the experimentally viable space of new possibilities for DM is to abandon the assumption of thermal equilibrium between the dark and Standard...