Speaker
Pouya Asadi
(U Oregon)
Description
I show that vector-like confining dark sectors are endowed with a hitherto overlooked parity akin to SM’s G-parity. This parity forbids all the leading interactions of such confining dark sectors with SM, effectively suppressing their scattering rate in direct detection experiments. This suggests a vast part of the parameter space of this class of models that was presumed ruled out is still viable and constitutes a well-motivated target for collider searches.
