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High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Tongyan Lin "Searching for light dark matter, from the early universe to direct detection"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Sep 11, 2020   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Tongyan Lin
Contact
Brandy Shier
E-Mail
BSHIER@ILLINOIS.EDU
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Originating Calendar
Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar

A possible mechanism for setting the dark matter (DM) relic abundance is freeze-in, where the DM is produced by extremely feeble interactions of Standard Model particles. Despite the very small couplings, if the DM interacts via a light mediator then this is a predictive and detectable scenario with possible DM mass as low as ~10 keV. I will discuss the production of this DM via plasmon decay and prospects for testing freeze-in with the CMB, probes of small scale structure, and proposed direct detection experiments.

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