Prospecting bipartite Dark Matter through Gravitational Waves
Abstract
We explore the gravitational wave probes of a two-component dark matter framework, consisting of an triplet scalar and a Standard Model singlet fermion. The triplet scalar dark matter typically remains underabundant in the region below TeV, due to the strong gauge mediated interactions. We introduce a second dark matter component, an singlet vector-like Dirac fermion, to address this deficit in the dark matter relic abundance within a sub-TeV range. A key aspect of the proposed setup is the potential dark matter inter-conversion between the two components, which impacts the dark matter freeze-out dynamics and relic density of individual dark matter components. In such a scenario, we examine the properties of electroweak phase transition and identify the regions of parameter space that exhibit strong first-order phase transition. We estimate the resulting gravitational wave spectrum and its detectability, which could be probed through the conventional power-law-integrated sensitivity limits and the recently proposed peak-integrated sensitivity curves. Our analysis reveals that a novel region of the model's parameter space, compatible with dark matter observables, can generate a detectable gravitational wave spectrum, observable by upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, BBO, DECIGO, and DECIGOcorr, while also offering complementary detection prospects in the dark matter and collider experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.17141,
title = {Prospecting bipartite Dark Matter through Gravitational Waves},
author = {Pankaj Borah and Pradipta Ghosh and Abhijit Kumar Saha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17141},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
88 Pages, 24 Figures, new references added, version accepted for publication in JCAP