Major
Physics
Anticipated Graduation Year
2024
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
Dark matter, its origins and how its density has evolved during the universe's expansion is one of the most pressing questions in physics. It seems to account for about 27 percent of the universe, and yet we don't yet know either what it is made of or how it interacts with the matter we know. This project studies the mechanisms that Dark Matter gets produced in. Specifically, I examined the FIMP paradigm, a model of dark matter that interacts feebly with ordinary matter.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Walter Tangarife, PhD
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Freeze-in and Freeze-out of Dark Matter from the Boltzmann Equation
Dark matter, its origins and how its density has evolved during the universe's expansion is one of the most pressing questions in physics. It seems to account for about 27 percent of the universe, and yet we don't yet know either what it is made of or how it interacts with the matter we know. This project studies the mechanisms that Dark Matter gets produced in. Specifically, I examined the FIMP paradigm, a model of dark matter that interacts feebly with ordinary matter.