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SIMP Dark Matter
by Yonit Hochberg
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Submission summary
| Submission information |
| Preprint Link: |
scipost_202203_00039v2
(pdf)
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| Date accepted: |
2022-07-05 |
| Date submitted: |
2022-06-08 15:07 |
| Submitted by: |
Hochberg, Yonit |
| Submitted to: |
SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
| Ontological classification |
| Academic field: |
Physics |
| Specialties: |
- High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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| Approaches: |
Theoretical, Phenomenological |
Abstract
These notes summarize the zoom-course on Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP) dark matter given at the Les Houches Summer School in the summer of 2021. An alternative title for this course would be `SIMPS, Cannibals and ELDERs', where our focus is on high-point interactions amongst dark matter particles. The spirit of the course is to give students a taste of these exciting developments in dark matter, while primarily teaching tricks and methods that are tough to captivate when reading textbooks or papers. These notes are written in similar spirit: I will put emphasis on how quantities scale and how to perform back of the envelope estimates, which should serve to help you when you develop the next great dark matter idea.
