Speaker
Evan Petrosky
Description
For many years, models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) have been a useful target for direct detection experiments and other probes of dark matter. However, increasingly precise experimental probes have severely constrained the viable parameter space for these models. In this talk, I will review a paradigmatic WIMP model, Singlet-Doublet dark matter. I will introduce the model and discuss the remaining parameter space in light of contemporary experiments. In order to evade constraints, the model must live in special regions of parameter space. I will discuss these special regions, the prospects for probing them in the future, and explain how one might arrange for the model parameters to naturally inhabit them.
Primary author
Co-authors
Aaron Pierce
(University of Michigan)
Prudhvi Bhattiprolu
(University of Michigan)
