Origins of hidden sector dark matter I: cosmology

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)042zbMATH Open1301.81335arXiv1010.0022WikidataQ59270412 ScholiaQ59270412MaRDI QIDQ475994FDOQ475994

Authors: Clifford Cheung, Gilly Elor, Lawrence J. Hall, Piyush Kumar 

Publication date: 27 November 2014

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

Abstract: We present a systematic cosmological study of a universe in which the visible sector is coupled, albeit very weakly, to a hidden sector comprised of its own set of particles and interactions. Assuming that dark matter (DM) resides in the hidden sector and is charged under a stabilizing symmetry shared by both sectors, we determine all possible origins of weak-scale DM allowed within this broad framework. We show that DM can arise only through a handful of mechanisms, lending particular focus to Freeze-Out and Decay and Freeze-In, as well as their variations involving late time re-annihilations of DM and DM particle anti-particle asymmetries. Much like standard Freeze-Out, where the abundance of DM depends only on the annihilation cross-section of the DM particle, these mechanisms depend only on a very small subset of physical parameters, many of which may be measured directly at the LHC. In particular, we show that each DM production mechanism is associated with a distinctive window in lifetimes and cross-sections for particles which may be produced in the near future. We evaluate prospects for employing the LHC to definitively reconstruct the origin of DM in a companion paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0022

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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