Speaker
William Shepherd
(University of Copenhagen)
Description
I discuss the cosmological impact of dark matter bound state formation in the early universe in the context of complete simplified models of dark matter interactions. In particular, I show that the effects of relativity on the nature and behavior of these bound states are important to correctly describe the physics in cases of interest. I continue on to discuss the implications of these interactions for the parameter space of well-motivated models of dark matter, especially in the context of unitarity considerations which lead to upper bounds on the mass of thermal dark matter.
Author
William Shepherd
(University of Copenhagen)
