SuperWIMP Dark
Matter
Monday 17 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Jonathan Feng (Irvine)
@: jlf AT uci.edu
Dark matter may be
composed of superWIMPs,
superweakly-interacting
massive particles produced in the late decays of
other
particles. Well-motivated examples are gravitinos in supersymmetry
and
Kaluza-Klein gravitons in universal extra dimensions. Such
particles
are produced
after a year, and so seemingly tightly constrained by BBN.
I show that
this dark matter candidate is nevertheless viable, and explore
its
implications for BBN, the CMB, and collider searches for new physics.
In such a
scenario, the gravitational interactions of individual
fundamental
particles may be explored experimentally.