29 September 2015 to 2 October 2015
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Gauge fields as dark matter

30 Sept 2015, 15:30
15m
Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Main Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics

Speaker

Dr Christian Gross (Helsinki University)

Description

I discuss the scenario of a dark U(1) or SU(N) gauge group coupled to the Standard Model via the Higgs portal. It turns out that minimal CP-conserving hidden Higgs sectors entail stable massive gauge fields which fall into the WIMP category of dark matter candidates. For SU(N), N>2, DM consists of three components, two of which are degenerate in mass. In all of the cases, there are substantial regions of parameter space where the direct and indirect detection as well as relic abundance constraints are satisfied.

Primary author

Dr Christian Gross (Helsinki University)

Co-authors

Oleg Lebedev (Helsinki University) Yann Mambrini (LPT Orsay)

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