Relic abundance of dark photon dark matter

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.135136zbMATH Open1435.83207arXiv1810.07188OpenAlexW2994305678WikidataQ126640112 ScholiaQ126640112MaRDI QIDQ2188479FDOQ2188479

Authors: Prateek Agrawal, Naoya Kitajima, Matthew Reece, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, Fuminobu Takahashi 

Publication date: 11 June 2020

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

Abstract: We present a new mechanism for producing the correct relic abundance of dark photon dark matter over a wide range of its mass, extending down to $10^{-20},mathrmeV$. The dark matter abundance is initially stored in an axion which is misaligned from its minimum. When the axion starts oscillating, it efficiently transfers its energy into dark photons via a tachyonic instability. If the dark photon mass is within a few orders of magnitude of the axion mass, $m_{gamm{a}^{\prime }}/m_a=calO(10^{-3}-1)$, then dark photons make up the dominant form of dark matter today. We present a numerical lattice simulation for a benchmark model that explicitly realizes our mechanism. This mechanism firms up the motivation for a number of experiments searching for dark photon dark matter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07188

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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