| Published Articles | |
| Title | Strongly interacting light dark matter |
| Author(s) | Urbano, Alfredo (CERN) |
| Publication | 2017 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| In: | Frascati Phys. Ser. 65 (2017) pp.150-156 |
| In: | Old and New Strong Interactions from LHC to Future Colliders, Trento, Italy, 11 - 15 Sep 2017, pp.150-156 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
| Abstract | We discuss a class of Dark Matter (DM) models that, although inherently strongly coupled, appear weakly coupled at small-energy and fulfill the WIMP miracle, generating a sizable relic abundance through the standard freeze-out mechanism. Such models are based on approximate global symmetries that forbid relevant interactions; fundamental principles, like unitarity, restrict these symmetries to a small class, in such a way that the leading interactions between DM and the Standard Model are captured by effective operators up to dimension-8. The underlying strong coupling implies that these interactions become much larger at high-energy and represent an interesting novel target for LHC missing-energy searches. |
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