TH BSM Forum

Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy WIMP Annihilation

by Martin Bauer (University of Heidelberg)

Europe/Zurich
4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

4/2-011 - TH common room

CERN

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Description
Simple WIMP models with the correct relic density or beyond the SM models like split susy motivate heavy weakly interacting DM candidates with mass M>>MW. For such a large mass splitting between mediator and DM, naive perturbation theory is spoiled by the presence of large Sudakov-type logarithms ∼ α log2(2 M/mW ). These universal logarithms need to be resummed in a SCET like effective field theory. I will introduce this framework and discuss the implications using the example of scalar triplet annihilations to line photons.