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Hidden SU(N) Glueball Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-27 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate the possibility that the dark matter candidate is from a pure non-abelian gauge theory of the hidden sector, motivated in large part by its elegance and simplicity. The dark matter is the lightest bound state made of the confined gauge fields, the hidden glueball. We point out this simple setup is capable of providing rich and novel phenomena in the dark sector, especially in the parameter space of large N. They include self-interacting and warm dark matter scenarios, Bose-Einstein condensation leading to massive dark stars possibly millions of times heavier than our sun giving rise to gravitational lensing effects, and indirect detections through higher dimensional operators as well as interesting collider signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00714,
  title  = {Hidden SU(N) Glueball Dark Matter},
  author = {Amarjit Soni and Yue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00714},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; v2: references and discussions added

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