Speaker
Robert McGehee
(U. Minnesota)
Description
Belle II is sensitive to O(GeV) visibly-decaying dark photons which kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon (ie through the vector portal). Interestingly, there are a number of motivated, non-vanilla BSM models which all point to the masses and couplings that are imminently detectable there. We’ll cover a range of such scenarios with broad theoretical motivations such as self-interacting dark matter, asymmetric dark matter & baryogengesis, and models of neutral naturalness.
