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SUMMARY:Collider and Astrophysical Signatures of Composite Inelastic Dark M
	atter
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Philip Schuster\, SLAC\n\nPart of the HET Seminar Ser
	ies.\n\nAbstract:\nI propose a class of inelastic dark matter theories wher
	e the dark\nmatter is a "heavy flavor meson" of a hidden sector that confin
	es at\n~GeV. If the dark matter has a mass of ~TeV\, hyperfine structure\ng
	enerates ~100 keV splittings of the dark matter states. Dark matter\ngauge 
	interactions that mix with Standard Model hypercharge mediate\nboth elastic
	 and inelastic scattering; this scattering can explain the\nannual modulati
	on signal reported by DAMA\, and with modified search\nstrategies\, can be 
	tested in upcoming dark matter searches. These\ntheories make striking pred
	ictions for new leptonic final states with\nobservable production rates at 
	B factories. I will also comment on\npossible astrophysical signatures of t
	hese theories.
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