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SUMMARY:Sub-GeV Thermal Relics Enabled by a Light Higgs Portal
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250918T080000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250918T082000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Vishnu Padmanabhan Kovilakam (Institute of Theoretic
 al Physics\, University of Münster)\nIn this talk\, I will discuss minima
 l realizations of light thermal dark matter (DM) candidates. These scenari
 os typically require a light mediator to ensure sufficient DM annihilation
  rates. We demonstrate that such mediators can arise from additional Higgs
  doublet(s). Within this framework\, we focus on two specific scenarios: (
 1) Forbidden DM\, where DM predominantly annihilates into SM charged lepto
 ns through kinematically forbidden channels\, and (2) Neutrinophilic DM\, 
 where neutrinos serve as the primary annihilation products. In both cases\
 , all BSM states lie at or below electroweak scale\, making these models t
 estable at upcoming colliders\, beam-dump experiments\, future sub-GeV gam
 ma-ray telescopes\, and next-generation neutrino detectors.\n\nhttps://ind
 ico.ift.uam-csic.es/event/29/contributions/468/
LOCATION:IFT UAM/CSIC
URL:https://indico.ift.uam-csic.es/event/29/contributions/468/
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