Composite Dark Matter with Forbidden Annihilation
Abstract
A dark matter model based on QCD-like gauge theory with electroweakly interacting dark quarks is discussed. Assuming the dark quark mass is smaller than the dynamical scale , the main component of the dark matter is the lightest -parity odd dark pion associated with chiral symmetry breaking in the dark sector. We show that nonzero dark quark mass induces the universal mass contribution to both -parity odd and even pions, and their masses tend to be degenerate. As a result, dark pion annihilation into heavier -parity even dark pion also affects the dark matter relic abundance. Thus, our setup naturally accommodates forbidden dark matter scenario and realizes heavy dark matter whose mass is -, which is different from conventional electroweakly interacting dark matter such as minimal dark matter. We also discuss CP-violation from -term in the dark gauge sector and find that the predicted size of electron electric dipole moment can be as large as .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.03963,
title = {Composite Dark Matter with Forbidden Annihilation},
author = {Tomohiro Abe and Ryosuke Sato and Takumu Yamanaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03963},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
30 pages, 11 figures