Theorie-Palaver

Feb. 4, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. in MITP seminar room

Mathias Becker

Sebastian Schenk

Yong Xu

Phenomenology of feebly coupled dark sectors
Avirup Ghosh (Harish Chandra Research Institute)


The existence of Dark Matter (DM) as one of the major component of our universe is inevitable today. Though there are several evidences of DM, all of them are gravitational in nature. The particle nature of DM is yet unknown. The most popular theory of particle DM is Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMP) which though very interesting from the point of view of naturalness, is not yet tested in experiments. On the other hand, Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMP) as an alternative scenario is gaining attention in recent times which due to their feeble interaction can not be observed in current generation of experiments. I shall discuss in my talk how in some FIMP scenarios the tiny coupling of FIMP DM give rise to interesting signals.