Massive Gravitons as Feebly Interacting Dark Matter Candidates
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-03-10 v2
Abstract
We detailed our discovery of a chiral enhancement in the production cross sections of massive spin-2 gravitons, below the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, that makes them ideal dark matter candidates for the freeze-in mechanism. The result is independent of the physics at high scales, and points toward masses in the keV- MeV range. The graviton is, therefore, a sub-MeV dark matter particle, as favored by the small scale galaxy structures. We apply the novel calculation to a Randall-Sundrum model with multiple branes, showing a significant parameter space where the first two massive gravitons saturate the dark matter relic density.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.14548,
title = {Massive Gravitons as Feebly Interacting Dark Matter Candidates},
author = {Haiying Cai and Giacomo Cacciapaglia and Seung J. Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14548},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
6 pages plus appendix, 2 figures; published version