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Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It has been shown that a first order confinement phase transition can drastically change the relic dark matter abundance in confining dark sectors with only heavy dark quarks. We study the phenomenology of one such model with a Z' portal to Standard Model. We find that dark glueballs are long-lived in this setup and dilute the dark matter abundance after their decay to Standard Model. With this effect, the correct relic abundance is obtained with dark matter masses up to O(106)\mathcal{O}(10^6)~TeV. We find that while a part of the parameter space is already ruled out by direct detection and collider searches, there is still a broad space of viable scenarios that can be probed by future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2203.15813,
  title  = {Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model},
  author = {Pouya Asadi and Eric David Kramer and Eric Kuflik and Tracy R. Slatyer and Juri Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15813},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures, and three Appendices on thermodynamics and Phase Transitions and heavier Glueball states. Version published in JHEP

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