Events on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
- SIMP Miracles and WIMP Dead Ends: Navigating the Freeze-Out of MeV Dark Matter
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place:
- Speaker: Joseph Pradler, HEPHY, Vienna
- Abstract: In this talk we consider both the possibility of dark matter being either a strongly or a weakly interacting thermal relic. For strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs) we study the influence of bound states X on their cosmology, finding a "catalysis" of mass-depleting processes in the hidden sector, adding a qualitative change to SIMP freeze-out once X exist, hence broadening the options for SIMP dark matter. In turn, for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) we study the low mass frontier of thermal relics where freeze-out happens during the cosmological non-trivial epochs of neutrino decoupling and primordial nucleosynthesis. Here we present a first self-consistent calculation of the cosmological Neff parameter that is expected to be measured with much improved accuracy in upcoming CMB experiments.
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