HEP@VUB meetings

Monday 27 Nov 2017, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

EuroDemo (0G120) (Universe)

External Speaker: Prof. Glennys Farrar (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics New York)

14:00 → 15:00 Sexaquark Dark Matter¶

There may be a so-far-undiscovered neutral, stable particle composed of 6 quarks, denoted S, with mass m_S ~ 2 m_p. If so, the S is an excellent Dark Matter candidate. I will explain why such a particle would not have been detected, propose experiments to discover it, discuss why direct detection experiments to date do not exclude it, mention some of the numerous astrophysical benefits of a DM-baryon interaction, and how it works cosmologically giving the observed DM-baryon abundance ratio and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe.

Speaker: Prof. Glennys Farrar

Slides SDM_VUB_112717.pdf