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Experimental Seminar
Exploring dark sectors at low-energy colliders
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Kavli Meeting Room - room 305 (SLAC)
Kavli Meeting Room - room 305
SLAC
Building 51
Description
Of the vast array of dark matter candidates proposed during the last decades, the possibility of dark sector(s) has recently received much attention. This class of models introduces a new hidden sector with WIMP-like dark matter particles charged under a new Abelian gauge group. The corresponding gauge boson, dubbed a dark photon, must be lighter than a few GeV to explain recent astrophysical and terrestrial anomalies. Thanks to their large luminosities and low-background environments, low-energy e+e- colliders offer an ideal environment to probe these scenarios, complementing searches for dark matter at the LHC or in direct detection and satellite experiments.
In this talk, I'll briefly review the motivation and phenomenology of dark sectors, present recent searches for dark sector particles and discuss future experiments designed to further probe these possibilities.