Theory HEP Seminar

WIMP Dark Matter In An Unusual Cosmological History

Seyda Ipek

Carleton University

WIMP miracle has been an important paradigm in the search for dark matter. However the WIMP parameter space is under great tension from direct detection experiments. I will give you a WIMP scenario with an alternative cosmological history of our universe where the quarks confined into mesons at an earlier stage compared to the standard cosmology with the Standard Model. This alternate scenario will open up WIMP parameter space that is not excluded by dark matter experiments.