The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2019

Session

Dark Matter and Cosmology

17 May 2019, 10:40

7. Constraining Non-thermal Dark Matter by CMB

Rouzbeh Allahverdi

17/05/2019, 10:40

A period of early matter domination can give rise to the correct dark matter abundance for a broad range of dark matter annihilation rate. I show that obtaining the correct relic abundance for small annihilation rates sets a lower bound on the duration of early matter domination era. On the other hand, the requirement that the scalar spectral index of inflationary fluctuations be within the...

54. Deciphering the Archaeological Record: Cosmological Imprints of Non-Minimal Dark Sectors

Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)

17/05/2019, 11:05

55. Cosmological Constraints on Unstable Particle Ensembles

Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)

17/05/2019, 11:30

14. Reheating at Strong Coupling

Scott Watson (Syracuse University)

17/05/2019, 15:10

I will discuss challenges for inflationary cosmology, focusing on the need to reheat the Standard Model in the presence of multiple hidden sectors.

49. Establishing the Initial Conditions for Inflation: A Slingshot Mechanism

Dr Jeff Kost (Institute of Basic Science)

17/05/2019, 15:35

51. Cosmic-ray dark matter from simplified models

Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona state university)

17/05/2019, 16:00

It has been previously noted that cosmic rays propagating in the galaxy can scatter on the dark matter halo. This scattering can impart energy to the dark matter, creating a small population of 'cosmic-ray dark matter' particles. This population of cosmic rays could be observed in ordinary dark matter and neutrino detectors. In this talk I will review the formalism of cosmic-ray dark matter...