Speaker: James Unwin
Title: Tweaking the Dark Matter Abundance with Cosmology
Host: Da Liu
Room: 432
Abstract: There is a great deal of freedom to propose changes from the standard cosmology history of the universe prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. In this talk I will highlight that tweaks to standard cosmology can significantly boost or deplete the expected relic abundance of dark matter. I will highlight some classic applications of these ideas in the context of neutralino dark matter, discuss recent work applying these ideas to different dark matter scenarios, and outline some new ideas related to cosmologies with non-standard equations of state.
