Dark sectors at colliders and flavour experiments (B3a)

• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 396021762

Project B3a will explore the phenomenology of dark sector models that address the dark matter problem by introducing new particles with very weak couplings to the Standard Model but potentially strong interactions between them. We will calculate predictions for collider signatures, such as dark showers or displaced vertices, and for observables at flavour experiments, such as rare decays. These predictions will then be compared to experimental data and combined with cosmological and astrophysical observations in order to perform global fits of dark sector models.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 257: P3H: Particle Physics Phenomenology after the Higgs Discovery
• Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Felix Kahlhoefer; Professor Dr. Michael Krämer; Professor Dr. Tilman Plehn, until 12/2022