Impeded dark matter

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)033zbMATH Open1390.83463arXiv1609.02147MaRDI QIDQ1636623FDOQ1636623

Y. Aharonov

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider dark matter models in which the mass splitting between the dark matter particles and their annihilation products is tiny. Compared to the previously proposed Forbidden Dark Matter scenario, the mass splittings we consider are much smaller, and are allowed to be either positive or negative. To emphasize this modification, we dub our scenario "Impeded Dark Matter". We demonstrate that Impeded Dark Matter can be easily realized without requiring tuning of model parameters. For negative mass splitting, we demonstrate that the annihilation cross-section for Impeded Dark Matter depends linearly on the dark matter velocity or may even be kinematically forbidden, making this scenario almost insensitive to constraints from the cosmic microwave background and from observations of dwarf galaxies. Accordingly, it may be possible for Impeded Dark Matter to yield observable signals in clusters or the Galactic center, with no corresponding signal in dwarfs. For positive mass splitting, we show that the annihilation cross-section is suppressed by the small mass splitting, which helps light dark matter to survive increasingly stringent constraints from indirect searches. As specific realizations for Impeded Dark Matter, we introduce a model of vector dark matter from a hidden $SU(2)$ sector, and a composite dark matter scenario based on a QCD-like dark sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02147

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Cites Work

• \(\mathrm{SU}(2)_X\) vector DM and galactic center gamma-ray excess
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• Model-independent bounds on kinetic mixing
• Semi-annihilation of dark matter
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• AdS/QCD approach to the scale-invariant extension of the standard model with a strongly interacting hidden sector
• Non-abelian gauge fields as dark matter
• Composite dark sectors
• SU(2)_N model of vector dark matter with a leptonic connection

Cited In (3)

• Dark matter as a remnant of SQCD inflation
• Accretion of dissipative dark matter onto active galactic nuclei
• Quasi-degenerate dark photon and dark matter

Uses Software

• ASCL
• DRAGON

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