From the Standard Model to Dark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The standard model of particle physics is marvelously successful. However, it is obviously not a complete or final theory. I shall argue here that the structure of the standard model gives some quite concrete, compelling hints regarding what lies beyond. Taking these hints seriously, one is led to predict the existence of new types of very weakly interacting matter, stable on cosmological time scales and produced with cosmologically interesting densities--that is, ``dark matter''.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501343,
title = {From the Standard Model to Dark Matter},
author = {Frank Wilczek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501343},
year = {2009}
}
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26 pages, postscript, 3 figures (hard copy only) available by request