Dark matter is a genuine spin-2 field

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (34) ◽  
pp. 1845010
Author(s):  
Federico R. Urban
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Massive Spin

We know about Dark Matter (DM) only thanks to Gravity. I will review the idea that this must be the case because DM is nothing else than a manifestation of Gravity itself, in the guise of an additional, massive, spin-2 particle.

scholarly journals Dark Matter with Genuine Spin-2 Fields

Universe ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Federico Urban
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Massive Spin

Gravity is the only force which is telling us about the existence of Dark Matter. I will review the idea that this must be the case because Dark Matter is nothing else than a manifestation of Gravity itself, in the guise of an additional, massive, spin-2 particle.

scholarly journals NEUTRAL MASSIVE SPIN ½ PARTICLES EMISSION IN A RINDLER SPACE

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (21) ◽  
pp. 1350109 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIETRO LONGHI ◽  
ROBERTO SOLDATI
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Pauli Principle ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Unruh Effect ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Rindler Space ◽  
Majorana Spinor

The Unruh effect for the rate of emission and absorption of neutral massive Majorana spinor particles — plausible constituents of the Dark Matter — in a Rindler space–time is thoroughly investigated. The corresponding Bogoliubov coefficients are explicitly calculated and the consistency with Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli principle is actually verified.

scholarly journals Lightening gravity-mediated dark matter

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoo-Jin Kang ◽  
Hyun Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Arbitrary Spin ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Density Condition ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Warped Extra Dimension ◽  
Consistent Parameter ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Production Mechanisms

Abstract We revisit the scenario of a massive spin-2 particle as the mediator for communicating between dark matter of arbitrary spin and the Standard Model. Taking the general couplings of the spin-2 particle in the effective theory, we discuss the thermal production mechanisms for dark matter with various channels and the dark matter self-scattering. For WIMP and light dark matter cases, we impose the relic density condition and various experimental constraints from direct and indirect detections, precision measurements as well as collider experiments. We show that it is important to include the annihilation of dark matter into a pair of spin-2 particles in both allowed and forbidden regimes, thus opening up the consistent parameter space for dark matter. The benchmark models of the spin-2 mediator are presented in the context of the warped extra dimension and compared to the simplified models.

scholarly journals Dark matter self-interactions from spin-2 mediators

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoo-Jin Kang ◽  
Hyun Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Scattering Cross Section ◽  
The Self ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Resonance Effects ◽  
Scattering Cross ◽  
Born Cross Section ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Type Potential

AbstractWe propose a new mechanism for rendering dark matter self-interacting in the presence of a massive spin-2 mediator. The derived Yukawa-type potential for dark matter is independent of the spins of dark matter in the leading order of the momentum expansion, so are the resulting non-perturbative effects for the dark matter self-scattering. We find that both the Born cross section and relatively mild resonance effects assist to make the self-scattering cross section velocity-dependent. We discuss how to evade the current indirect bounds on dark matter annihilations and show that the model is marginally compatible with perturbative unitarity in the ghost-free realization of the massive spin-2 particle.

scholarly journals Dark matter interacting via a massive spin-2 mediator in warped extra-dimensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. de Giorgi ◽  
S. Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Longitudinal Modes ◽  
Energy Behavior ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Warped Extra Dimensions

Abstract We study dark matter interacting via a massive spin-2 mediator. To have a consistent effective theory for the spin-2 particle, we work in a warped extra-dimensional model such that the mediator(s) are the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of the 5D graviton. We pay close attention to dark matter annihilations into KK-gravitons. Due to the high energy behavior of longitudinal modes of spin-2 fields, these channels exhibit a tremendous growth at large center of mass energies $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s if only one spin-2 mediator is considered. For the first time, we include the full KK-tower in this dark matter production process and find that this growth is unphysical and cancels once the full field content of the extra-dimensional theory is taken into account. Interestingly, this implies that it is not possible to approximate the results obtained in the full theory with a reduced set of effective interactions once $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s is greater than the first graviton mass. This casts some doubt on the universal applicability of previous studies with spin-2 mediators within an EFT framework and prompts us to revisit the phenomenological allowed parameter space of gravitationally interacting scalar dark matter in warped extra-dimensions.

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