7–11 Aug 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Thermal Dark Matter Below an MeV

9 Aug 2017, 16:30
15m
Small Theater (The Athenaeum)

Small Theater

The Athenaeum

Oral Dark matter (direct detection, indirect detection, theory, etc.) Dark matter

Speaker

Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

Description

In this talk, I will discuss a class of models in which thermal dark matter is lighter than an MeV. If dark matter thermalizes with the Standard Model below the temperature of neutrino-photon decoupling, constraints from measurements of the effective number of neutrino species are alleviated. This framework motivates new experiments in the direct search for sub-MeV thermal dark matter and light force carriers.

Primary author

Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

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