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Composite Dark Matter with Forbidden Annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-19 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

A dark matter model based on QCD-like SU(Nc)SU(N_c) gauge theory with electroweakly interacting dark quarks is discussed. Assuming the dark quark mass mm is smaller than the dynamical scale Λd4πfd\Lambda_d \sim 4\pi f_d, the main component of the dark matter is the lightest GG-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 GG-parity odd and even pions, and their masses tend to be degenerate. As a result, dark pion annihilation into heavier GG-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 O(1{\cal O}(1-100) TeV100)~{\rm TeV}, which is different from conventional electroweakly interacting dark matter such as minimal dark matter. We also discuss CP-violation from θ\theta-term in the dark gauge sector and find that the predicted size of electron electric dipole moment can be as large as 1032 e cm\sim 10^{-32}~e~{\rm cm}.

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@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}
}

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30 pages, 11 figures

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