專題演講 Seminar

2018/02/02(Fri)     11:00 -12:45    七樓研討室 7F, P7F Seminar Room

Title

Reappraisal of dark matter co-annihilating with a top or bottom partner

Speaker

姜偉宜 教授 (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Prof. WAI-YEE KEUNG (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Abstract

We revisit the calculation of the relic density of dark matter particles co-annihilating with a top or bottom partner by properly including the QCD bound-states (onia) effects of the colored partners as well as the relevant electroweak processes, which become important in the low-mass region. We carefully set up the complete framework that incorporates the relevant contributions and investigate their effects on the cosmologically preferred mass spectrum, which turn out to be comparable in size to those coming from the Sommerfeld enhancement. We apply the calculation to three scenarios: bino-stop and bino-sbottom co-annihilations in supersymmetry and a vector dark matter co-annihilating with a fermionic top partner. In addition, we confront our analysis of the relic abundance with recent direct detection experiments and collider searches at the LHC, which have important implications in the bino-stop and bino-sbottom scenarios. In particular, in the bino-stop case, recent LHC limits have excluded regions of parameter space with a direct detection rate that is above the neutrino floor.

Language

演講語言 (Language): in English