Boosted self-interacting dark matter and XENON1T excess

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2022.115787zbMATH Open1495.83028arXiv2107.13176OpenAlexW4226350866MaRDI QIDQ2136342FDOQ2136342

Satyabrata Mahapatra, Manoranjan Dutta, Narendra Sahu, Debasish Borah

Publication date: 10 May 2022

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a self-interacting boosted dark matter (DM) scenario as a possible explanation of the recently reported excess of electron recoil events by the XENON1T experiment. The Standard Model (SM) has been extended with two vector-like fermion singlets charged under a dark $U(1{)}_D$ gauge symmetry to describe the dark sector. While the presence of light vector boson mediator leads to sufficient DM self-interactions to address the small scale issues of cold dark matter, the model with sub-GeV scale DM can explain the XENON1T excess via elastic scattering of boosted DM component with electrons at the detector. Strong annihilation of DM into the light mediator leads to a suppressed thermal relic. A hybrid setup of dark freeze-out and non-thermal contribution from the late decay of a scalar can lead to correct relic abundance. We fit our model with XENON1T data and also find the final parameter space consistent with self-interaction of DM, DM-electron scattering rate, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations. A tiny parameter space consistent with all these constraints and requirements can be further scrutinized in near-future experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13176

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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