Speaker
Prof.
Tonnis ter Veldhuis
(Macalester College)
Description
If the Standard Model is confined to a brane that spontaneously breaks some of the space-time symmetries of the
embedding space, then additional massive vector fields must be included. According to the low energy, four
dimensional effective theory describing this scenario, these vector fields couple to the energy momentum tensor of
the Standard Model. As the additional vector fields can be stable, they are potential dark matter candidates. The
parameter space of the model is constrained by collider llimits from LEPII and the Tevatron, and the results of
current direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments. The reach of the LHC and ILC and next generation of
dark matter detection experiments to further probe the parameter space is considered.
Author
Prof.
Tonnis ter Veldhuis
(Macalester College)
