Models for Self-resonant Dark Matter
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 -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 -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.
Cite
@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