7–11 Aug 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Strongly Interacting Dark Matter at Fixed-Target Experiments

11 Aug 2017, 14:15
15m
Spartan Room (The Athenaeum)

Spartan Room

The Athenaeum

Oral Particle physics (energy frontier, intensity/precision frontier, other theory) Particle physics

Speaker

Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

Description

One interesting class of models involves dark matter as the lightest state of a strongly interacting hidden sector, similar to the pions of QCD. In this talk, I will examine the possibility that the lightest vector resonances of the hidden sector are nearby in mass and accessible within the current operating energy of fixed-target experiments. These states significantly modify processes in the early universe and give rise to striking signals at low-energy accelerators, involving missing energy and displaced pairs of leptons.

Author

Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

Presentation materials