PIRSA:17100079

Hunting for WIMPs: How low should we go?

Pierce, A. (2017). Hunting for WIMPs: How low should we go?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17100079

Pierce, Aaron. Hunting for WIMPs: How low should we go?. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 17, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17100079 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17100079,
            doi = {10.48660/17100079},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17100079},
            author = {Pierce, Aaron},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Hunting for WIMPs: How low should we go?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:17100079 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Aaron Pierce

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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Direct detection experiments are rapidly improving their sensitivity to weak scale Dark Matter.  A particular interesting (and minimal) possibility is that the Dark matter interacts with ordinary matter via the exchange of weak bosons: the W, Z, and Higgs.  Dark matter with substantial coupling to the Higgs boson is already under significant tension from limits on spin-independent scattering.  We comment on the power of  spin-dependent scattering as a probe of Z-mediated dark matter, both in a simple effective theory, and in the so-called Singlet-Doublet Model, which we argue is a useful benchmark.  We also review the case where the cosmology of the WIMP is dominated by co-annihilation processes, focusing on the stop co-annihilation region of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and discuss prospects for direct detection in this case.