Renata Zukanovich Funchal, U. Sao Paulo [HET Theory Seminar], "New Windows for Inelastic Dark Matter"

Thursday 5 Dec 2024, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Eastern

2-160 (https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1605506805?pwd=AA9rwL4hM5AwG2b0zEwDdXjzhvJjSz.1)

After many decades of experimental searches the nature of Dark Matter
(DM) remains a mystery.
Among the several possible scenarios, the inelastic DM (iDM) scenario
is a clever theoretical proposal capable of naturally evading bounds
from direct and indirect detection, as well as cosmological
constraints, while still yielding the correct  observed relic
abundance via the standard freeze-out mechanism. Although such models
have been intensively studied in the literature, the usual scenario is
to consider a secluded dark photon mediator. We will  consider here
the case of iDM with general vector mediators and explore the
consequences of such a choice in the relic density computation, as
well as for the cosmological and experimental bounds. We will examine
models with couplings to baryon and lepton number and show new viable
parameter regions for inelastic dark matter models yet unexplored by
experiments.