9–11 May 2016
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs

9 May 2016, 15:00
15m
G28 (Benedum Hall)

G28

Benedum Hall

parallel talk Dark Matter I

Speaker

Rebecca Leane

Description

In this talk I will discuss the indirect detection signals for a self-consistent hidden U(1) sector, containing a fermionic dark matter candidate, dark Z' gauge boson and a dark Higgs. The presence of the scalar, the dark Higgs, provides a mass generation mechanism for the dark sector particles, and for some couplings is required in order to avoid unitarity violation at high energies. I will show that the inclusion of this scalar to the sector opens up a new s-wave annihilation channel for indirect detection searches, providing rich phenomenology.

Author

Rebecca Leane

Co-authors

Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne) Yi Cai

Presentation materials