Speaker:
Ahmed Ismail
Institution:
University of Pittsburgh
Date:
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Time:
3:00 pm
Location:
FRH 4135
Abstract:
Gauge anomalies occur in nearly all Abelian extensions of the Standard Model without additional chiral fermions. The lack of detection of new particles suggests that if a new gauge boson exists, we can integrate out the heavy anomaly-canceling fermions at high scales to obtain a low energy effective field theory with a non-conserved current. We review the construction of this theory and discuss its phenomenological applications, with a focus on the Wess-Zumino terms describing the effective low energy anomalies. In particular, we show that the requirement of theoretical consistency in dark matter models can lead to enhanced indirect detection signatures.
Gauge anomalies occur in nearly all Abelian extensions of the Standard Model without additional chiral fermions. The lack of detection of new particles suggests that if a new gauge boson exists, we can integrate out the heavy anomaly-canceling fermions at high scales to obtain a low energy effective field theory with a non-conserved current. We review the construction of this theory and discuss its phenomenological applications, with a focus on the Wess-Zumino terms describing the effective low energy anomalies. In particular, we show that the requirement of theoretical consistency in dark matter models can lead to enhanced indirect detection signatures.
Host:
Angelo Monteux