Speaker
Anastasiia Filimonova
(Nikhef)
Description
Thermal dark matter candidates are usually associated with the Weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPS). However, vanilla WIMP scenarios suffer from severe experimental constraints. I would therefore like to discuss two alternatives to the standard picture: Inelastic Dark Matter and Dark Sectors with Bound States. In both cases, a dark matter candidate is in thermal contact with the Standard Model plasma at high temperatures, but its decoupling differs sufficiently from the one of a WIMP. This drastically changes the relic abundance predictions and thus changes dark matter phenomenology, opening the playground for new searches.
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Authors
Anastasiia Filimonova
(Nikhef)
Graham White
Kallia Petraki
(LPTHE, Sorbonne University)
Laura Lopez Honorez
Ruth Schäfer
Sam Junius
(ULB & VUB)
Susanne Westhoff
(Heidelberg University)
Tobias Binder
(Kavli IPMU)
Torben Ferber
(KIT)
