Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  09

  Feb

  2021

  Colloquium: Making Dark Matter out of Light

  4:00 pmZoom Meeting. See Below.

  Katelin Schutz
  Department of Physics
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Making Dark Matter out of Light

  Dark matter could be a “thermal-ish” relic of freeze-in, where the dark matter is produced by extremely feeble interactions with Standard Model particles dominantly at low temperatures. In this talk, I will discuss how sub-MeV dark matter can be made through freeze-in, accounting for a dominant channel where the dark matter gets produced by the decay of plasmons (photons that have an in-medium mass in the primordial plasma of our Universe). I will also explain how the resulting non-thermal dark matter velocity distribution can impact cosmological observables.

   

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  Meeting ID: 919 282 27187