Today Josh Ruderman (NYU) gave a great Physics Colloquium, about particle physics phenomenology, from measuring important standard-model parameters with colliders to finding new particles in cosmology experiments. It was very wide-ranging and filled with nice insights about (among other things) thermal-relic dark matter and intuitions about (among other things) observability of different kinds of dark-sector activity. One theme of the dark-matter talks I have seen recently is that most sensible, zeroth-order bounds (like on mass and cross section for a thermal-relic WIMP) can be modified by slightly complexifying the problem (like by adding a dark photon or another dark state). Ruderman navigated a bunch of that for us nicely, and convinced us that there is lots to do in particle theory, even if the LHC remains in a standard-model desert.
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