TY - CONF AU - Arias, Paola TI - Cold Dark Matter from the Hidden Sector IS - arXiv:1202.6570 M1 - PUBDB-2016-01076 M1 - arXiv:1202.6570 M1 - DESY-12-036 SP - 56-59 PY - 2011 AB - Weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs) such as hidden photons (HP) and axion-like particles (ALPs) have been proposed as cold dark matter candidates. They might be produced non-thermally via the misalignment mechanism, similarly to cold axions. In this talk we review the main processes of thermalisation of HP and we compute the parameter space that may survive as cold dark matter population until today. Our findings are quite encouraging for experimental searches in the laboratory in the near future. T2 - 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs CY - 27 Jun 2011 - 1 Jul 2011, Mykonos (Greece) Y2 - 27 Jun 2011 - 1 Jul 2011 M2 - Mykonos, Greece KW - photon: hidden sector (INSPIRE) KW - dark matter (INSPIRE) KW - axion (INSPIRE) KW - WISP (INSPIRE) KW - WIMP (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)15 DO - DOI:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2011-04/arias_paola UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/295128 ER -