Light Dark Matter from Entropy Dilution

Evans, Jared A.; Ghalsasi, Akshay; Gori, Stefania; Tammaro, Michele; Zupan, Jure

doi:10.1007/jhep02(2020)151

Light Dark Matter from Entropy Dilution

Journal Article · Mon Feb 24 23:00:00 EST 2020 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2020)151· OSTI ID:1802259

^[1]; Ghalsasi, Akshay ^[2]; Gori, Stefania ^[2]; Tammaro, Michele ^[3]; Zupan, Jure ^[3]

Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics; OSTI
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Santa Cruz Inst. for Particle Physics
Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics

We show that a thermal relic which decouples from the standard model (SM) plasma while relativistic can be a viable dark matter (DM) candidate, if the decoupling is followed by a period of entropy dilution that heats up the SM, but not the dark sector. Such diluted hot relics can be as light as few keV, while accounting for the entirety of the DM, and not conflicting with cosmological and astrophysical measurements. The requisite dilution can be achieved via decays of a heavy state that dominates the energy budget of the universe in the early matter dominated era. The heavy state decays into the SM particles, heats up the SM plasma, and dilutes the hidden sector. The interaction required to equilibrate the two sectors in the early universe places a bound on the maximum possible dilution as a function of the decoupling temperature. As an example of diluted hot relic DM we consider a light Dirac fermion with a heavy dark photon mediator. We present constraints on the model from terrestrial experiments (current and future), astrophysics, and cosmology.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1802259

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 2020; ISSN 1029-8479

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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