High Energy Physics Seminar: Min-Seok Seo (ISB Center for Theoretical Physics)

October 21, 2015 - 8:30pm to 10:00pm

Title: Z'-portal for dark mesons in the SIMP scheme 

Abstract:

Recently, it has been proposed that dark mesons with Wess-Zumino-Witten term realizes the SIMP scheme, in which dark matter relic density is determined by freeze-out of 3 -> 2 self-annihilation, in a natural way. This model can be completed after considering communication between dark sector and Standard Model sector in order to prevent the dark matter over-heating. In this talk, kinetic mixing between dark U(1) and hypercharge U(1) gauge bosons is suggested as a plausible interaction satisfying such requirement. Possible ways of assigning U(1) charge are restricted by the presence of Wess-Zumino-Wittern term, so more information on dark sector can be extracted. Requirement of sufficient interaction between dark- and Standard Model sector provides lower bound of the dark photon mass and the magnitude of kinetic mixing.  Several additional issues concerning the model is also visited. 

Location and Address

321 Allen Hall, PITT