scholarly journals Freeze-in dark matter from secret neutrino interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Du ◽  
Fei Huang ◽  
Hao-Lin Li ◽  
Jiang-Hao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Neutrino Interactions ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Light Scalar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structure Problem ◽  
Relic Abundance

Abstract We investigate a simplified freeze-in dark-matter model in which the dark matter only interacts with the standard-model neutrinos via a light scalar. The extremely small coupling for the freeze-in mechanism is naturally realized in several neutrino-portal scenarios with the secret neutrino interactions. We study possible evolution history of the hidden sector: the dark sector would undergo pure freeze-in production if the interactions between the dark-sector particles are negligible, while thermal equilibrium within the dark sector could occur if the reannihilation of the dark matter and the scalar mediator is rapid enough. We investigate the relic abundance in the freeze-in and dark freeze-out regimes, calculate evolution of the dark temperature, and study its phenomenological aspects on BBN and CMB constraints, the indirect-detection signature, as well as the potential to solve the small scale structure problem.

scholarly journals Brief History of Ultra-light Scalar Dark Matter Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 06005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Weon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Einstein Condensate ◽  
Matter Wave ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Matter Model ◽  
Light Scalar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dark Matter Model

This is a review on the brief history of the scalar field dark matter model also known as fuzzy dark matter, BEC dark matter, wave dark matter, or ultra-light axion. In this model ultra-light scalar dark matter particles with mass m = O(10-22)eV condense in a single Bose-Einstein condensate state and behave collectively like a classical wave. Galactic dark matter halos can be described as a self-gravitating coherent scalar field configuration called boson stars. At the scale larger than galaxies the dark matter acts like cold dark matter, while below the scale quantum pressure from the uncertainty principle suppresses the smaller structure formation so that it can resolve the small scale crisis of the conventional cold dark matter model.

scholarly journals Inelastic dark matter, small scale problems, and the XENON1T excess

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungwon Baek
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Coupling ◽  
Photoelectric Effect ◽  
Elastic Cross Section ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Generic Model ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Relic Abundance ◽  
Inelastic Dark Matter

Abstract We study a generic model in which the dark sector is composed of a Majorana dark matter χ1, its excited state χ2, both at the electroweak scale, and a light dark photon Z′ with mz′ ∼ 10−4 eV. The light Z′ enhances the self-scattering elastic cross section χ1χ1 → χ1χ1 enough to solve the small scale problems in the N-body simulations with the cold dark matter. The dark matter communicates with the SM via kinetic mixing parameterized by ϵ. The inelastic scattering process χ1χ1 → χ2χ2 followed by the prompt decay χ2 → χ1Z′ generates energetic Z′. By setting δ ≡ mχ2− mχ1 ≃ 2.8 keV and ϵ ∼ 10−10 the excess in the electron-recoil data at the XENON1T experiment can be explained by the dark-photoelectric effect. The relic abundance of the dark matter can also be accommodated by the thermal freeze-out mechanism via the annihilation χ1χ1(χ2χ2) → Z′Z′ with the dark gauge coupling constant αX ∼ 10−3.

scholarly journals Atomki anomaly and the Secluded Dark Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 06007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Small Scale Structure ◽  
Light Vector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Effective Models ◽  
Relic Abundance

The Atomiki anomaly can be interpreted as a new light vector boson. If such a new particle exists, it could be a mediator between the Standard Model sector and the dark sector including the dark matter. We discussed some simple effective models with these particles. In the models, the secluded dark matter models are good candidates to satisfy the thermal relic abundance. In particular, we found that the dark matter self-interaction can be large enough to solve the small scale structure puzzles if the dark matter is a fermion.

scholarly journals Model-independent constraints with extended dark matter EFT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommi Alanne ◽  
Giorgio Arcadi ◽  
Florian Goertz ◽  
Valentin Tenorth ◽  
Stefan Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Relic Abundance

Abstract We systematically explore the phenomenology of the recently proposed extended dark matter effective field theory (eDMeft), which allows for a consistent effective description of DM scenarios across different energy scales. The framework remains applicable at collider energies and is capable of reproducing the correct relic abundance by including a dynamical mediator particle to the dark sector, while maintaining correlations dictated by gauge invariance in a ‘model-independent’ way. Taking into account present and future constraints from direct- and indirect-detection experiments, from collider searches for missing energy and for scalar resonances in vector-boson, di-jet, and Higgs-pair final states, as well as from the relic abundance as measured by Planck, we determine viable regions in the parameter space, both for scalar and pseudoscalar mediator. In particular, we point out regions where cancellations in the direct-detection cross section appear leading to allowed islands for scalar mediators that could be missed in a naive simplified-model approach, but are present in the full D = 5 effective theory, as well as a general opening of the parameter space due to consistently considering all operators at a given mass dimension. Thus, canonical WIMP-like scenarios can survive even the next generation of direct-detection experiments in different mass regimes, while potentially becoming testable at the high-luminosity LHC.

scholarly journals A dark clue to seesaw and leptogenesis in a pseudo-Dirac singlet doublet scenario with (non)standard cosmology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Konar ◽  
Ananya Mukherjee ◽  
Abhijit Kumar Saha ◽  
Sudipta Show
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Thermal History ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Mass Term ◽  
Baryon Asymmetry ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Lepton Asymmetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

Abstract We propose an appealing alternative scenario of leptogenesis assisted by dark sector which leads to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe satisfying all theoretical and experimental constraints. The dark sector carries a non minimal set up of singlet doublet fermionic dark matter extended with copies of a real singlet scalar field. A small Majorana mass term for the singlet dark fermion, in addition to the typical Dirac term, provides the more favourable dark matter of pseudo-Dirac type, capable of escaping the direct search. Such a construction also offers a formidable scope to radiative generation of active neutrino masses. In the presence of a (non)standard thermal history of the Universe, we perform the detailed dark matter phenomenology adopting the suitable benchmark scenarios, consistent with direct detection and neutrino oscillations data. Besides, we have demonstrated that the singlet scalars can go through CP-violating out of equilibrium decay, producing an ample amount of lepton asymmetry. Such an asymmetry then gets converted into the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the non-perturbative sphaleron processes owing to the presence of the alternative cosmological background considered here. Unconventional thermal history of the Universe can thus aspire to lend a critical role both in the context of dark matter as well as in realizing baryogenesis.

scholarly journals Dark scalars and heavy neutral leptons at DarkQuest

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Batell ◽  
Jared A. Evans ◽  
Stefania Gori ◽  
Mudit Rai
Keyword(s):  
Particle Production ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Detector Acceptance ◽  
Light Scalar ◽  
Near Term

Abstract The proposed DarkQuest beam dump experiment, a modest upgrade to the existing SeaQuest/SpinQuest experiment, has great potential for uncovering new physics within a dark sector. We explore both the near-term and long-term prospects for observing two distinct, highly-motivated hidden sector benchmark models: heavy neutral leptons and Higgs-mixed scalars. We comprehensively examine the particle production and detector acceptance at DarkQuest, including an updated treatment of meson production, and light scalar production through both bremsstrahlung and gluon-gluon fusion. In both benchmark models, DarkQuest will provide an opportunity to probe previously inaccessible interesting regions of parameter space on a fairly short timescale when compared to other proposed experiments.

scholarly journals Hidden sector monopole dark matter with matter domination

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Graesser ◽  
Jacek K. Osiński
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Magnetic Monopoles ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Pure Radiation ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Equilibrium Dynamics ◽  
Thermal Histories ◽  
Relic Abundance

Abstract The thermal freeze-out mechanism for relic dark matter heavier than O(10 − 100 TeV) requires cross-sections that violate perturbative unitarity. Yet the existence of dark matter heavier than these scales is certainly plausible from a particle physics perspective, pointing to the need for a non-thermal cosmological history for such theories. Topological dark matter is a well-motivated scenario of this kind. Here the hidden-sector dark matter can be produced in abundance through the Kibble-Zurek mechanism describing the non-equilibrium dynamics of defects produced in a second order phase transition. We revisit the original topological dark matter scenario, focusing on hidden-sector magnetic monopoles, and consider more general cosmological histories. We find that a monopole mass of order (1–105) PeV is generic for the thermal histories considered here, if monopoles are to entirely reproduce the current abundance of dark matter. In particular, in a scenario involving an early era of matter domination, the monopole number density is always less than or equal to that in a pure radiation dominated equivalent provided a certain condition on critical exponents is satisfied. This results in a larger monopole mass needed to account for a fixed relic abundance in such cosmologies.

scholarly journals Model-independent indirect detection constraints on hidden sector dark matter

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (06) ◽  
pp. 024-024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilly Elor ◽  
Nicholas L. Rodd ◽  
Tracy R. Slatyer ◽  
Wei Xue
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Model Independent

scholarly journals Resolving small-scale dark matter structures using multisource indirect detection

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenny C. Y. Ng ◽  
Ranjan Laha ◽  
Sheldon Campbell ◽  
Shunsaku Horiuchi ◽  
Basudeb Dasgupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Small Scale
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