13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Constraining atomic dark matter with the high-redshift UV luminosity function

15 May 2024, 14:45
15m
David Lawrence Hall 120 (University of Pittsburgh)

David Lawrence Hall 120

University of Pittsburgh

Dark Matter Dark Matter

Speaker

Jared Barron

Description

Atomic dark matter is a dark sector model including two fermionic states oppositely charged under a dark U(1) gauge symmetry, which can result in rich cosmological signatures. I discuss recent work using cosmological n-body simulations to investigate the impact of an atomic dark matter sector on observables such as the galactic UV luminosity function at redshifts >10, and consider the constraining power of recent JWST observations for this model.

Author

Co-authors

David Curtin (University of Toronto) Hongwan Liu (Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics) Julian Muñoz (UT Austin) Prof. Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University) Sandip Roy

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