Speaker
Dr
Simone Biondini
(Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Description
Tight constraints from the LHC and from direct and indirect detection experiments have put many simple dark matter models under tension in
recent years. Besides putting forward new ideas in model building, it can be useful to develop more accurate computations on which a given dark matter
scenario is based. In particular, we focus on the calculation of the dark
matter relic density via thermal freeze-out and investigate the impact of
the thermal medium: modified Sommerfeld effect, Salpeter correction
decohering scatterings, formation and dissociation of bound states. We
apply this formalism to the Inert Doublet Model and to a Majorana fermion
dark matter co-annihilating with a strongly interacting scalar.
Primary authors
Prof.
Mikko Laine
(Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Dr
Simone Biondini
(Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics)
