Speaker:
Ian Lewis
Institution:
Brookhaven Nat. Lab
Date:
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Time:
3:00 pm
Location:
FRH 4135
ABSTRACT:
Many models impose a discrete symmetry to forbid decays of the dark matter candidate. However, taking the Standard Model as a guide, Dark Matter may be expected to be stable due to gauge, Lorentz, or accidental symmetries. I examine the possibility that dark matter may be the manifestation of dark forces of a hidden sector, i.e. ``Dark Force = Dark Matter." As an illustrative and minimal example I consider the hidden SU(2)xU(1) gauge group, with the U(1) kinetically mixed with Standard Model hypercharge. I also study the LHC phenomenology of light vector bosons in Higgs physics.
Host:
Flip Tanedo