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

Unitarity and Bound-State Formation Constraints on Dark Matter

30 Sept 2015, 14:30
15m
Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Main Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics

Speaker

Dr William Shepherd (Niels Bohr International Academy)

Description

I present rigorous calculations of the constraints that perturbativity and unitarity apply to dark matter in the well-known portal scenarios. These provide the most stringent upper limit on dark matter mass in the thermal cosmology. I will also discuss the physics of dark matter bound states that can become important when the interactions of dark matter become so strong.

Primary author

Dr William Shepherd (Niels Bohr International Academy)

Presentation materials