Gr.IV seminar: Luca Panizzi - "Dark matter in t-channel scenarios"

Wednesday 15 Apr 2026, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

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Scenarios of new physics predicting dark matter candidates are multiple, and simplified models have emerged as a unifying framework to systematically classify their signatures while remaining independent of specific UV-complete realizations. Within this approach, t-channel scenarios extend the Standard Model by introducing a dark matter particle and a mediator which connects it to visible sector, both transforming non-trivially under the same stabilizing symmetry. This simple structure leads to a remarkably rich phenomenological landscape, depending on which Standard Model particles are involved and on the spins of the dark sector states. In this seminar, I will present an overview of these models and discuss how the complementarity between collider and cosmological/astroparticle probes can provide a coherent strategy to test them at current and future experiments.