Speaker
Federica Giacchino
(INFN LNF)
Description
The nature of the Dark Matter is a mystery not yet solved and its identification
is a big challenge for model builders and experimentalists. Among the plenthora of
possible DM candidates, the Weakly Interactive Massive Particle (WIMP) is the most
popular solution. In order to demonstrate that this is the valid explanation to
the DM problem, a non-gravitational signal and also a model to interpret a
possible DM message are needed. I will present a new Simplified Model, called
Vector-like Portal, which connects the hidden and the visible sector through a
Vector-like fermion and promotes a real scalar Dark Matter. I will show the main
features of model and its important consequences in the phenomenological analysis
for all three different DM search strategies, when it is coupled to leptons, light
and heavy quarks.
