4–6 May 2015
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter

5 May 2015, 15:00
15m
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260
parallel talk Dark Matter III

Speaker

Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

Description

All matter in the Standard Model appears in three generations, with a flavor structure the origin of which is not well understood. This motivates the question whether distinct phenomenological features arise if dark matter (DM) also has a non-trivial flavor structure. In this talk I will review the experimental signatures of a scenario where DM carries lepton flavor. I will demonstrate that the generation of a lepton asymmetry at a high energy scale can also produce a DM asymmetry, which can strongly affect the sensitivity of direct detection experiments, and I will present novel signatures that can appear at colliders and in indirect detection experiments.

Primary author

Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

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