(Postponed to November) The ILC as Window into the Early Universe

by Jenny List (DESY)

Monday 27 Apr 2020, 15:30 → 17:00 US/Eastern

A key motivation for the next generation of particle colliders is to shed light on some of the puzzles related to our current understanding of the evolution of the universe. These comprise the quest for Dark Matter, but also the mechanism of inflation and baryogenesis. The Higgs boson discovered at the LHC could be intimately related to these questions, and therefore precision determinations of its properties at a future electron-positron collider will provide important information on a potential Dark Sector.
Beyond the precision characterization of established particles like the Higgs boson, such a future electron-positron collider would offer a discovery potential for Dark Particles which is to a high degree complementary to searches at the LHC.