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Aug 26 – 30, 2024
University of Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

Probing atomic dark matter with the high-redshift UV luminosity function

Aug 29, 2024, 4:45 PM
15m
201 (MCP)

201

MCP

Speaker

Jared Barron (Stony Brook University)

Description

Atomic dark matter is a dark sector model including two fermionic states oppositely charged under a dark U(1) gauge symmetry, which can result in rich cosmological signatures. I discuss recent work using cosmological n-body simulations to investigate the impact of an atomic dark matter sector on observables such as the galactic UV luminosity function at redshifts >10, and consider the constraining power of recent JWST observations for this model.

Primary author

Jared Barron (Stony Brook University)

Co-authors

David Curtin Hongwan Liu (Fermilab, University of Chicago KICP) Julian Munoz Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University) Sandip Roy (Princeton University)

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