Axionlike particle assisted strongly interacting massive particle

Simp (strongly Interacting Massive Particle) Search

Quasi-particle model of strongly interacting matter

The successful quasi-particle model is compared with recent lattice data of the coefficients in the Taylor series expansion of the excess pressure at finite temperature and baryon density. A chain of approximations, starting from QCD to arrive at the model expressions for the entropy density, is presented.

Report for the Session on Strongly Interacting Many-particle Systems

The session was planned by Heinz Siedentop and Volker Bach as a series of introductory talks each followed by one or more sessions on open problems in the field. These served as starting point for the following discussions and work on the problems. Generally speaking the program focussed on two major topics, namely: • The mathematical theory of large atoms, molecules, and solids. • The mathemat...

Quasi-Particle Description of Strongly Interacting Matter: Towards a Foundation

We confront our quasi-particle model for the equation of state of strongly interacting matter with recent first-principle QCD calculations. In particular, we test its applicability at finite baryon densities by comparing with Taylor expansion coefficients of the pressure for two quark flavours. We outline a chain of approximations starting from the Φ-functional approach to QCD which motivates t...

Generalized analysis of the direct weakly interacting massive particle searches

We perform a generalized analysis of data from WIMP search experiments for pointlike WIMPs of arbitrary spin and general Lorenz-invariant WIMP-nucleus interaction. We explicitly show that in the nonrelativistic limit only spin-independent ~SI! and spin-dependent ~SD! WIMP-nucleon interactions survive, which can be parametrized by only five independent parameters. We explore this five-dimensiona...