Effective theory of freeze-in dark matter

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/021zbMATH Open1486.83061arXiv2007.08768OpenAlexW3043582520MaRDI QIDQ5035280FDOQ5035280

Rishav Roshan, Basabendu Barman, Debasish Borah

Publication date: 21 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We perform a model independent study of freeze-in of massive particle dark matter (DM) by adopting an effective field theory framework. Considering the dark matter to be a gauge singlet Majorana fermion, odd under a stabilising symmetry $Z_2$ under which all standard model (SM) fields are even, we write down all possible DM-SM operators upto and including mass dimension eight. For simplicity of the numerical analysis we restrict ourselves only to the scalar operators in SM as well as in the dark sector. We calculate the DM abundance for each such dimension of operator considering both UV and IR freeze-in contributions which can arise before and after the electroweak symmetry breaking respectively. After constraining the cut-off scale and reheat temperature of the universe from the requirement of correct DM relic abundance, we also study the possibility of connecting the origin of neutrino mass to the same cut-off scale by virtue of lepton number violating Weinberg operators. We thus compare the bounds on such cut-off scale and corresponding reheat temperature required for UV freeze-in from the origin of light neutrino mass as well as from the requirement of correct DM relic abundance. We also briefly comment upon the possibilities of realising such DM-SM effective operators in a UV complete model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08768

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter theoryneutrino theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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• GrIP

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