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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.

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@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

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