
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday,
30 November 2005
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker:
Ian Low, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Title:
Grand Unification, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry, and the Small Scale
Structure of the Universe
Abstract:
We consider a framework where the dark matter arises from non-thermal
decays of a messenger particle in the TeV range. The messenger
particle compensates for the baryon asymmetry in the standard model
and gives similar number densities to both the baryon and the dark
matter. The non-thermal dark matter, if massive in the GeV range,
could have a free-streaming scale in the order of 0.1 Mpc and
potentially resolve the discrepancies between observations and the
LCDM model on the small scale structure of the Universe. Moreover, a
GeV scale dark matter naturally leads to the observed puzzling
proximity of baryonic and dark matter densities. Unification of gauge
couplings can also be achieved in a version of the model.
Host: J. Feng