Speaker
Kirtimaan Mohan
(Michigan State University)
Description
We consider a t-channel simplified model with a colored mediator and demonstrate the importance of considering non-perturbative effects for both relic density calculations and collider phenomenology. Specifically, we look at the impact of bound state formation and the Sommerfeld effect. We find that the parameter space thought to be excluded by direct detection experiments and LHC searches remains still viable. Additionally, we illustrate that long-lived particle searches and bound-state searches at the LHC can play a crucial role in probing such a model. We demonstrate how future direct detection experiments will be able to close almost all of the remaining window for freeze-out production, making it a highly testable scenario.
Primary author
Kirtimaan Mohan
(Michigan State University)
