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Vector Portal Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-06 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a model of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter that interacts through a light vector mediator based on a spontaneously broken SU(2)SU(2) dark sector. The dark matter mass is induced by the explicit breaking of the dark SU(2)SU(2) symmetry. A residual global U(1)U(1) symmetry prevents dark matter decay. The behavior of this model is studied under the assumption that the observed dark matter relic abundance is due to thermal freeze-out. We consider self-interaction targets for small scale structure anomalies and the possibility of interacting with the Standard model through the vector mediator.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10913,
  title  = {Vector Portal Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter},
  author = {Ian Chaffey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10913},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages + references; Typos corrected

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