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SUMMARY:Hunting for WIMPs: How low should we go?
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Aaron Pierce\, Michigan\n\nPart of the HET Seminar Se
	ries.\n\nDirect detection experiments are rapidly improving their sensitivi
	ty to weak scale Dark Matter.  A particular interesting (and minimal) possi
	bility is that the Dark matter interacts with ordinary matter via the excha
	nge of weak bosons: the W\, Z\, and Higgs.  Dark matter with substantial co
	upling to the Higgs boson is already under significant tension from limits 
	on spin-independent scattering.  We discuss the power of  spin-dependent sc
	attering as a probe of Z-mediated dark matter\, both in a simple effective 
	theory\, and in the so-called Singlet-Doublet Model\, which we argue is a u
	seful benchmark.  We also review the case where the cosmology of the WIMP i
	s dominated by co-annihilation processes\, focusing on the stop co-annihila
	tion region of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model\, and discuss pros
	pects for direct detection in this case.
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