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High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Sarah Shandera (Pennsylvania State University) "Dark Black Holes"

Speaker: Sarah Shandera (Pennsylvania State University)
Date: 2/28/2020
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: 464 Loomis
Event Contact: Brandy Shier
BSHIER@ILLINOIS.EDU
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

The particle nature of dark matter is still unknown, and includes the possibility that dark matter consists of multiple particles interacting via new dark forces. In that case, the Chandrasekhar relation connects the minimum mass of a black hole made of dark matter to the mass of one of the charged dark matter particles. I will present a simple model of dark matter interacting under a dark electromagnetism, and with no non-gravitational interactions with the standard model, which leads to a significant new population of coalescing black hole binaries. I will show how searches for binaries containing sub-solar mass black holes already allow gravitational wave data to provide new constraints on the particle physics properties of dark matter.