Well-tempered n-plet dark matter

- 06 Target dark matter detection rates in models with a well - tempered neutralino

In the post-LEP2 era, and in light of recent measurements of the cosmic abundance of cold dark matter (CDM) in the universe from WMAP, many supersymmetric models tend to predict 1. an overabundance of CDM and 2. pessimistically low rates for direct detection of neutralino dark matter. However, in models with a " well-tempered neutralino " , where the neutralino composition is adjusted to give t...

The Well-tempered Computer

The psychological mechanism by which even musically untutored people can comprehend novel melodies resembles that by which they comprehend sentences of their native language. The paper identifies a syntax, a semantics, and a domain or “model”. These elements are examined in application to the task of harmonic comprehension and analysis of unaccompanied melody, and a computational theory is argu...

The Well-Tempered Critic

The well-tempered social brain.

Hidden SU(N) glueball dark matter

We investigate the possibility that the dark matter candidate is from a pure non-Abelian gauge theory of the hidden sector, motivated in large part by its elegance and simplicity. The dark matter is the lightest bound state made of the confined gauge fields, the hidden glueball. We point out that this simple setup is capable of providing rich and novel phenomena in the dark sector, especially i...