PIRSA:20120013

Thermal Dark Sectors in the Early and Late Universe

Xu, L. (2020). Thermal Dark Sectors in the Early and Late Universe . Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20120013

Xu, Linda. Thermal Dark Sectors in the Early and Late Universe . Perimeter Institute, Dec. 01, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20120013 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20120013,
            doi = {10.48660/20120013},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/20120013},
            author = {Xu, Linda},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Thermal Dark Sectors in the Early and Late Universe },
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2020},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:20120013 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Linda Xu

Harvard University

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One of the puzzles that the newly data-rich fields of cosmology and astrophysics are most advantaged to tackle is the nature of the dark sector.  In particular, a dark sector that thermalizes with the SM bath at some epoch has present-day observable properties that are directly tied to early-universe interactions. In this talk I survey some recent work on detecting different types of thermal dark particles by leveraging different cosmological and astrophysical datasets.  I discuss the utility of each of these different probes, the implication for particle theories, and prospects for the future.