Light dark matter from entropy dilution
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Publication:2188653
DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)151zbMATH Open1435.85009arXiv1910.06319OpenAlexW2979870537MaRDI QIDQ2188653FDOQ2188653
Akshay Ghalsasi, Jared A. Evans, Jure Zupan, S. Gori, Michele Tammaro
Publication date: 11 June 2020
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We show that a thermal relic which decouples from the standard model (SM) plasma while relativistic can be a viable dark matter (DM) candidate, if the decoupling is followed by a period of entropy dilution that heats up the SM, but not the dark sector. Such diluted hot relics can be as light as a keV, while accounting for the entirety of the DM, and not conflicting with cosmological and astrophysical measurements. The requisite dilution can be achieved via decays of a heavy state that dominates the energy budget of the universe in the early matter dominated era. The heavy state decays into the SM particles, heats up the SM plasma, and dilutes the hidden sector. The interaction required to equilibrate the two sectors in the early universe places a bound on the maximum possible dilution as a function of the decoupling temperature. As an example of diluted hot relic DM we consider a light Dirac fermion with a heavy dark photon mediator. We present constraints on the model from terrestrial experiments (current and future), astrophysics, and cosmology.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06319
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