1–5 Jun 2026
Paraninfo, University of Zaragoza
Europe/Madrid timezone

What can flavour tell us about Dark Matter?

1 Jun 2026, 16:20
20m
Pilar Sinués

Pilar Sinués

Oral presentation Theory & pheno Parallel Session - Theory/Phenomenology

Speaker

Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basek)

Description

The non-trivial flavour structure of t-channel dark matter models with fermion couplings is unavoidably constrained by flavour physics, hinting towards the presence of an underlying flavour symmetry.
In this talk, I present a systematic study of the low-energy flavour constraints affecting these models from the perspective of flavour symmetries, together with complementary bounds from collider searches and dark matter direct detection experiments.
I show that the TeV scale suggested by the freeze-out mechanism is compatible with the various probes only in specific flavour-symmetric limits, highlighting the essential role of flavour symmetries in the realisation of these models.

Main Contribution topic Theory / Phenomenology
Secondary contribution topic Direct detection

Author

Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basek)

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