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Title: Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: Ultraheavy particle dark matter

Journal Article · · SciPost Physics Core
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Indian Inst. of Science Bangalore (IISc) (India)
  3. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  4. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  5. Stockholm Univ. (Sweden); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  6. Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada); Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada)
  7. Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada)
  8. Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON (Canada)
  9. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  10. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  11. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  12. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
  13. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  14. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  15. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  16. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  17. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
  18. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  19. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  20. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  21. Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Republic of Korea); Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  22. Univ. of Adelaide, SA (Australia); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  23. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

We outline the unique opportunities and challenges in the search for "ultraheavy" dark matter candidates with masses between roughly 10 TeV and the Planck scale $$m_{pl}$$ ≈ $$10^{16}$$ TeV. This mass range presents a wide and relatively unexplored dark matter parameter space, with a rich space of possible models and cosmic histories. We emphasize that both current detectors and new, targeted search techniques, via both direct and indirect detection, are poised to contribute to searches for ultraheavy particle dark matter in the coming decade. We highlight the need for new developments in this space, including new analyses of current and imminent direct and indirect experiments targeting ultraheavy dark matter and development of new, ultra-sensitive detector technologies like next-generation liquid noble detectors, neutrino experiments, and specialized quantum sensing techniques.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1861809
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-22-160-T; arXiv:2203.06508; oai:inspirehep.net:2050968
Journal Information:
SciPost Physics Core, Vol. 6, Issue 4; ISSN 2666-9366
Publisher:
SciPost FoundationCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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