Self-interacting forbidden dark matter under a cannibally co-decaying phase

Kwei-Chou Yang (Department of Physics and Center for High Energy Physics, Chung Yuan Christian University, 200 Chung Pei Road, Taoyuan, 32023, Taiwan)

In a usual dark matter (DM) model without a huge mass difference between the DM and lighter mediator, using the coupling strength suitable for having the correct relic density, the resulting self-interaction becomes several orders of magnitude smaller than that required to interpret the small-scale structures. We present a framework that can offer a solution for this point. We consider a model that contains the vector DM and a heavier but unstable Higgs-like scalar in the hidden sector. When the temperature drops below ~ m DM, the hidden sector, which is thermally decoupled from the visible sector, enters a cannibal phase, during which the DM density is depleted with the out-of-equilibrium decay of the scalar. The favored parameter region, giving the correct relic density and the proper size of self-interactions, shows the scalar-to-DM mass ratio ∈ [1.1, 1.33] and the scalar mass ∈ [9, 114] MeV. A sizable parameter space still survives the most current constraints and can be further probed by the near future NA62 beam dump experiment.

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Published on:
04 June 2024
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2024 (2024)
Issue 6
Pages 1-26
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)005
arXiv:
2306.17037
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CC-BY-4.0

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