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CP 303
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Girish Muralidhara (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
We explore the prospects of very heavy millicharged particles as candidates for some or all of dark matter (DM). Constraints on their properties like charge, dipole moment and mass are obtained by translating the current limits set by state-of-the-art nuclear recoil experiments like XENONnT and LZ. We contrast the extracted limits with those coming from astrophysical considerations, such as the decoupling of DM from regular matter during the recombination epoch and the suitability of the dynamical environments in the galactic halo for these heavy and charged beyond the Standard Model particles to remain lodged-in and available for future detections.
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