High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar

The cosmological LambdaCDM standard model faces some problems related to the formation of structures at relatively small scales, most notably the missing-satellites problem, the cusp-core problem, the too-big-to-fail problem, and the diversity problem. I will advertise late kinetic decoupling of dark matter as a mechanism to address the missing satellites problem. Afterwards, I will describe a model involving self-interacting dark matter and sterile neutrinos that can tackle all four small-scale problems.