Geometric dark matter

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/051zbMATH Open1491.83019arXiv2001.06577OpenAlexW3105596131MaRDI QIDQ5068474FDOQ5068474

Authors: Durmuş A. Demir, Beyhan Puliçe 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

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

Abstract: The dark matter, needed for various phenomena ranging from flat rotation curves to structure formation, seems to be not only neutral and long-living but also highly secluded from the ordinary matter. Here we show that, metric-affine gravity, which involves metric tensor and affine connection as two independent fields, dynamically reduces, in its minimal form, to the usual gravity plus a massive vector field. The vector, which interacts with only the quarks, leptons and gravity, is neutral and long-living (longer than the age of the Universe) when its mass range is $9.4mMeV<M_Y<28.4mMeV$. Its scattering cross section from nucleons, which is some 60 orders of magnitude below the current bounds, is too small to facilitate direct detection of the dark matter. This property provides an explanation for whys and hows of dark matter searches. We show that due to its geometrical origin the $Y_{m}u$ does not couple to scalars and gauge bosons. It couples only to fermions. This very feature of the $Y_{m}u$ makes it fundamentally different than all the other vector dark matter candidates in the literature. The geometrical dark matter we present is minimal and self-consistent not only theoretically but also astrophysically in that its feebly interacting nature is all that is needed for its longevity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06577

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark matter theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Affine differential geometry (53A15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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Cited In (3)

• Geometrical aspects on the dark matter problem
• Inflation in symmergent metric-Palatini gravity
• Geometry of manifolds and dark matter

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