Conveners
Dark Matter
- Edoardo Vitagliano
Dark Matter
- Andrea Caputo (U. Rome La Sapienza)
Dark Matter
- Andrea Caputo (U. Rome La Sapienza)
Composite dark matter models, where dark matter exists in bound states formed in the early universe, have long been a source of scientific interest. In this talk, I will focus on loosely bound dark matter composite states, where the binding energy per constituent is small compared to the constituent’s bare mass. If this binding energy is sufficiently small, scattering with Standard Model...
Models of Sub-GeV dark matter coupled to a dark photon with kinetic mixing feature a rich phenomenology. They are thus constrained by a number of laboratory, astrophysical and cosmological observations. The biggest obstacle for fermionic DM particles to make up all of the observed DM comes from the strong constraints placed by the CMB and X-ray emission on DM annihilation. This can be overcome...
In this talk, we present a tuning of PYTHIA and a coalescence model that leads to realistic predictions of antinuclei production. This tuning is validated against LEP data including the fragmentation function of $b$-quarks into into $b$-hadrons, which is crucial for determining the $\bar{\Lambda}_b^0$ multiplicity. The coalescence model is tuned to ALICE data for the $\overline{\text{D}}$ and...
Ultra-heavy dark matter is a class of candidates for which direct detection experiments are ineffective due to the suppressed dark matter flux. We explore the potential of large underwater acoustic arrays, developed for ultra-high energy neutrino detection, to detect ultra-heavy dark matter. As ultra-heavy dark matter traverses seawater, it deposits energy through nuclear scattering,...
