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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
      

Blanton Tinker Pullen
Event Type: Blanton Tinker Pullen
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: 726 Broadway, 902, Lg Conf

Inelastic dark matter revives the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly
Gopolang Mohlabeng, BNL
Event Type: HEP Seminar
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar
Abstract: A massive U(1)' gauge boson known as a “dark photon” or A', has long been proposed as a potential explanation for the muon g − 2 anomaly. Recently, experimental results have excluded this possibility for a dark photon decaying visibly and invisibly. I revisit this idea and consider a model where A' couples to inelastic dark matter, leading to a semi-visible decay mode. I show that for large mass splittings between the dark sector states this decay mode is enhanced, weakening the invisibly decaying dark photon bounds. As a consequence, A' resolves the g −2 anomaly in a region of parameter space and the thermal dark matter component of the Universe is readily explained.

Astroparticle Group Mtg
Event Type: Astroparticle Group Mtg
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 726 Broadway, 902, Lg Conf