Mar 18 – 22, 2024
Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich
Europe/Berlin timezone

Thermal effects in freeze-in DM production

Mar 20, 2024, 4:15 PM
25m
Auditorium (Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich)

Auditorium

Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich

Lichtenbergstraße 2a 85748 Garching Germany
3. Production and transport theory of Quarkonia and Dark Matter inside a plasma Wednesday - Session 4

Speaker

Jacopo Ghiglieri (SUBATECH, Nantes)

Description

In this talk I will consider a DM model with a new sector comprising of a Dark Matter fermion and a colored, heavier scalar, Yukawa-coupled to a Standard Model quark. In this model the DM fermion is produced both from freeze in and from the later decays of the frozen-out scalars. I will discuss how thermal effects such as the emergence of collectivity, of screening and of multiple interactions can be accounted for. I will show how they can significantly alter the standard expectation, namely that freeze-in production is dominated by temperatures of the order of the mass of the DM particle.
I will also discuss how the rate in the ultrarelativistic regime can be smoothly connected to the relativistic one

Author

Jacopo Ghiglieri (SUBATECH, Nantes)

Presentation materials