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Models for Self-resonant Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-08 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We consider a new mechanism for enhancing the self-scattering and annihilation cross sections for dark matter with multiple components but without a light mediator. The lighter dark matter component plays a role of the uu-channel pole in the elastic co-scattering for dark matter, leading to a large self-scattering cross section and a Sommerfeld enhancement for semi-annihilation processes. Taking the effective theory approach for self-resonant dark matter, we present various combinations of multiple dark matter components with spins and parities, showing a uu-channel pole in the co-scattering processes. Adopting dark photon and dark Higgs portals for self-resonant dark matter, we impose the relic density condition as well as indirect detection bounds on semi-annihilation channels with a Sommerfeld enhancement and discuss potential signals for direct detection experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13717,
  title  = {Models for Self-resonant Dark Matter},
  author = {Seong-Sik Kim and Hyun Min Lee and Bin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13717},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

36 pages, 7 figures, v2: minor typos corrected in Table 2, v3: Version to appear in JHEP

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