dark matter theory. · 2. thermal freeze-out 3. misalignment mechanism 4. phenomenology of wimps 1....
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Dark Matter Theory.
Felix KahlhoeferUniversität Freiburg19-21 April 2017
GRK20144 lecture series
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Practicalities
> I'm currently a fellow (i.e. postdoctoral researcher) in the Theory Group at DESY Hamburg, working on
Astroparticle physics
Physics beyond the Standard Model
Phenomenology of dark matter
> These slides and (hand-written) lecture notes will be available at
http://www.desy.de/~fkahlhoe/teaching.html
> Questions?
Just send me an email: [email protected]
...or stop by in room 604 after the lectures
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Outline
1. Evidence for Dark Matter
2. Explanations for Dark Matter
3. Dark matter in the early Universe
1. A brief introduction to cosmology
2. Thermal freeze-out
3. Misalignment mechanism
4. Phenomenology of WIMPs
1. Case study: Scalar singlet dark matter
2. Model-independent approaches
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Outline
1. Evidence for Dark Matter
2. Explanations for Dark Matter
3. Dark matter in the early Universe
1. A brief introduction to cosmology
2. Thermal freeze-out
3. Misalignment mechanism
4. Phenomenology of WIMPs
1. Case study: Scalar singlet dark matter
2. Model-independent approaches
Astrophysics: Today
Cosmology: Tomorrow
Particle physics: Friday
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Literature
> TASI lecture notes by Mariangela Lisanti:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03797.pdf
> SI2015 lecture notes by Matthew Reece:
http://indico.ihep.ac.cn/event/4878/material/2/0.pdf (incomplete)
> Review “Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints” by Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper and Joseph Silk:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0404175.pdf
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Galactic rotation curves
Image from Wikipedia, data from Corbelli, E. & Salucci, P. (2000), MNRAS 311 (2): 441–447
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The Bullet Cluster
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The Bullet Cluster
x-ray emitting
gasDominant contribution to
total mass (from weak
lensing)
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Cosmic Microwave Background
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Cosmic Microwave Background (power spectrum)
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N-body simulations
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgDoExbu_Q
Springel et al. (2006)
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Halo mass functions
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Small-scale problems
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Outline
1. Evidence for Dark Matter
2. Explanations for Dark Matter
3. Dark matter in the early Universe
1. A brief introduction to cosmology
2. Thermal freeze-out
3. Misalignment mechanism
4. Phenomenology of WIMPs
1. Case study: Scalar singlet dark matter
2. Model-independent approaches
Astrophysics: Yesterday
Cosmology: Today
Particle physics: Tomorrow
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Outline
1. Evidence for Dark Matter
2. Explanations for Dark Matter
3. Dark matter in the early Universe
1. A brief introduction to cosmology
2. Thermal freeze-out
3. Misalignment mechanism
4. Phenomenology of WIMPs
1. Case study: Scalar singlet dark matter
2. Model-independent approaches
Astrophysics: Yesterday
Cosmology: Today
Particle physics: Tomorrow
We will start at 9:30 s.t. (45 min earlier)
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Freeze-out
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Freeze-out
Y is the number density nχ divided by the entropy
density (to obtain a dimensionless quantity)
x is the dimensionless inverse temperature: Larger x corresponds to smaller temperature, corresponds to later time
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Freeze-out
Equilibrium distribution is exponentially suppressed:
Y ~ exp(-x)
Once <σv> is smaller than the Hubble rate, Y becomes constant. Larger σv means departure from thermal equilibrium happens later.
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Outline
1. Evidence for Dark Matter
2. Explanations for Dark Matter
3. Dark matter in the early Universe
1. A brief introduction to cosmology
2. Thermal freeze-out
4. Phenomenology of WIMPs
1. Case study: Scalar singlet dark matter
5. Beyond WIMPs
1. The misalignment mechanism
Astrophysics: Wednesday
Cosmology: Yesterday
Particle physics: Today
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Indirect detection
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Invisible Higgs decays
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Global fit of scalar singlet dark matter