Speaker
Dr
William Shepherd
(Niels Bohr International Academy)
Description
I discuss the cosmological impact of dark matter bound state formation in the early universe in the context of complete simplified models of dark matter interactions. In particular, I show that the effects of relativity on the nature and behavior of these bound states are important to correctly describe the physics in cases of interest. I continue on to discuss the implications of these interactions for the parameter space of well-motivated models of dark matter, especially in the context of unitarity considerations which lead to upper bounds on the mass of thermal dark matter.
Primary author
Dr
William Shepherd
(Niels Bohr International Academy)
