Final Report Summary - SUSYFLAVOUR (Flavour Violation in Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model)
Another field of research during my fellowship was Dark Matter. Dark Matter is assumed to consist of massive particles which do not interact electromagnetically. While its existence has been established on cosmological scales, very little is known about it specific properties. Here I focused on connecting direct detection experiments with searches for Dark Matter at the LHC via an effective field theory approach. I also proposed one model which combines flavour with Dark Matter by postulating that Dark Matter carries flavour charges.
I also completed some work in the (Next-to-) Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and wrote two article about the use of effective field theories in flavour physics in order to uncover new physics.
All results were presented at many international conferences and at seminars at universities and research institutions. In this respect, I would like to point out my US trip (financed by the Marie Curie travel money) where I gave seminars and a colloquium at Argonne National Lab, Fermi National Lab, University of Hawaii and Berkeley National Lab.
I also did outreach activities in order to inform the general public about theoretical particle physics. Among my outreach activities, I would like to mention my talk at the Gymnasium in Oberndorf a.N. and my two talks at the Studium Generale of the Business School Schwarzwald-Neckar which were reported in several local newspaper articles (see attachments).