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Supercool Composite Dark Matter Beyond 100 TeV

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-19 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Dark Matter could be a composite state of a confining sector with an approximate scale symmetry. We consider the case where the associated pseudo-Goldstone boson, the dilaton, mediates its interactions with the Standard Model. When the confining phase transition in the early universe is supercooled, its dynamics allows for Dark Matter masses up to 10610^6 TeV. We derive the precise parameter space compatible with all experimental constraints, finding that this scenario can be tested partly by telescopes and entirely by gravitational waves.

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@article{arxiv.2110.13926,
  title  = {Supercool Composite Dark Matter Beyond 100 TeV},
  author = {Iason Baldes and Yann Gouttenoire and Filippo Sala and Géraldine Servant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13926},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

35 pages plus appendices and references, accepted for publication in JHEP

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