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28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
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Decaying Dark Matter from Dark Instantons

30 Aug 2011, 14:50
20m
H: Racetrack Wilson Hall 7 Xover

H: Racetrack Wilson Hall 7 Xover

Dark matter: models Parallel Session 6

Speaker

Mr Reinard Primulando (The College of William and Mary)

Description

We construct an explicit, TeV-scale model of decaying dark matter in which the approximate stability of the dark matter candidate is a consequence of a global symmetry that is broken only by instanton-induced operators generated by a non-Abelian dark gauge group. The dominant dark matter decay channels are to standard model leptons. Annihilation of the dark matter to standard model states occurs primarily through the Higgs portal. We show that the mass and lifetime of the dark matter candidate in this model can be chosen to be consistent with the values favored by fits to data from the PAMELA and Fermi LAT experiments.

Primary author

Mr Reinard Primulando (The College of William and Mary)

Presentation materials