4–7 Dec 2019
Paradise Hotel Busan
Asia/Seoul timezone

Cosmological Relaxation from Dark Fermion Production

4 Dec 2019, 17:00
30m
Atlantis Room, B1 (Paradise Hotel Busan)

Atlantis Room, B1

Paradise Hotel Busan

296, Haeundaehaebyeon-ro (Jung-dong), Haeundae-gu, Busan, Korea

Speaker

Ui Min (KAIST)

Description

We consider the cosmological relaxation solution to the electroweak hierarchy problem using the fermion production as a dominant friction force. In our approach, neither super-Planckian field excursions nor a large number of e-folds arise, and scanning over thermal Higgs mass squared is avoided. The produced fermions from the relaxion source through the derivative coupling are SM-singlets, what we call dark fermions, and they can serve as the keV scale warm dark matter candidates.

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