The interplay of dark matter and flavour

• Antragstellerin: Dr. Katrin Gemmler
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik, Quantenmechanik, Relativitätstheorie, Felder
• Förderung: Förderung von 2013 bis 2016
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 232495753

The known physics at the microscopic scale is described by the Standard Model, which contains fermionic particles (quarks and leptons) as matter and gauge bosons as force mediators. The fermions come in various copies, dubbed flavour, which mix with each other. The Standard Model has a very specific structure for these flavour mixings. We also know that the Standard Model cannot be the end of the story, for example it cannot explain with its particle content the huge amount of dark matter in the universe. New physics beyond the Standard Model should explain such phenomena. This physics cannot be arbitrary, rather it is tightly constrained by observables of in the flavour sector. Dark matter is usually assumed to be single particle without underlying flavour structure. In this project I want to explore the possibility of flavoured dark matter in the most general framework. To this end, implications of dark matter and flavour experiments have to be considered simultaneously. Further I want to investigate other models of new physics, in terms of an updated flavour analysis.

• DFG-Verfahren: Forschungsstipendien
• Internationaler Bezug: USA
• Gastgeber: Dr. Stephen Parke