Speaker
Nicoline Hemme
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Description
In a confining extension to the Standard Model, a stable composite particle could be a viable dark matter candidate. Often referred to as a strongly-interacting dark sector, such a theory along with a portal to the Standard Model can give rise to interesting semi-visible jet signatures at particle colliders. However, we still have a lot of work to do in improving our understanding of the cosmology of such dark sectors in order to identify consistent models worth of further exploration. In my talk, I will discuss lattice predictions for the mass spectrum of dark mesons and how to calculate the relic abundance of the lightest dark mesons from the freeze-out of conversion processes.
Author
Nicoline Hemme
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Co-authors
Dr
Elias Bernreuther
(Fermilab)
Felix Kahlhoefer
(Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Dr
Suchita Kulkarni
(Graz U.)
