Seminarium "Teoria cząstek elementarnych i kosmologia"

The standard weak-scale WIMP paradigm seems to be losing its charm. Indeed, despite decades of experimental effort no convincing signal of such a DM particle has been found. What changes when the WIMP mass moves from O(100 GeV) to O(1-10 TeV)? In this talk I will address this question and explore new challenges as well as interesting new phenomena that emerge when going to the TeV scale and beyond. Bound state formation, Sommerfeld effect, large NLL corrections are examples of effects that start to be generically important and require careful theoretical treatment. I will also discuss detection prospects of heavy DM, with special emphasis on indirect searches.