<p>Joint Theory Seminar Speaker: Stefania Gori (UC Santa Cruz)<br />mail: stefaniagori83@gmail.com<br />Title: New accelerator experiments for dark sectors<br />Host: Verhaaren<br />Room: 432<br />Abstract: Dark Matter (DM) provides strong evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Arguably, rather than suggesting a specific mass scale for New Physics, it may point to a dark sector, weakly-coupled to the SM, as hinted at by the comparable abundances of dark matter and visible baryons. In this seminar, I will discuss new search strategies to broadly probe thermal Dark Matter scenarios at high-intensity accelerator experiments, with a special emphasis on the existing SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab and its possible upgrades. Specifically, I will focus on two interesting thermal dark sector scenarios: a model for inelastic Dark Matter and a model for strongly interacting Dark Matter, and demonstrate the unique capability of the SeaQuest experiment to discover the thermal DM region of these models.</p>
