2018-12-26  P7F

Probing pseudo-Goldstone dark matter

Takashi Toma

Thermal WIMPs are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, and 
are searched by various experiments. However any clear signature is not 
observed yet and resultant constraints are imposed on thermal WIMP 
scenarios. In particular, the constraints of recent direct detection 
experiments are stronger and stronger. In this talk, we propose a model 
of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter, and we show that the dark matter can 
naturally avoid the strong constraints of dark matter direct detection. 
In addition to detailed calculation of dark matter direct detection 
cross section, the other ways of detecting the dark matter are also 
discussed.