Dark matter freeze-out in a nonrelativistic sector

作者:Pappadopulo Duccio; Ruderman Joshua T; Trevisan Gabriele
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2016, 94(3): 035005.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.035005

摘要

A thermally decoupled hidden sector of particles, with a mass gap, generically enters a phase of cannibalism in the early Universe. The Standard Model sector becomes exponentially colder than the hidden sector. We propose the cannibal dark matter framework, where dark matter resides in a cannibalizing sector with a relic density set by 2-to-2 annihilations. Observable signals of cannibal dark matter include a boosted rate for indirect detection, new relativistic degrees of freedom, and warm dark matter.

  • 出版日期2016-8-5