Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of November 9th through November 15th, 2014
Monday, November 10th, 2014
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
- Aspects of Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Can Kilic, The University of Texas at Austin
- Abstract: All matter in the Standard Model (SM) appears in three generations, with an intricate flavor structure the origin of which is not well understood. This motivates the question whether distinct phenomenological features arise if dark matter (DM) also has a non-trivial flavor structure. In this talk I will focus on the possibility where the flavor structure of DM is linked to SM flavor in the lepton sector, and review the experimental signatures of this scenario. In particular, I will argue that the generation of a lepton asymmetry at a high energy scale can also produce a DM asymmetry, which can strongly affect the sensitivity of direct detection experiments, and I will present novel signatures that can appear at colliders and in indirect detection experiments for lepton-flavored DM.
- Host: Ran Lu
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
- No events scheduled
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
- No events scheduled
Friday, November 14th, 2014
- No events scheduled