Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter

Berlin, Asher; Blinov, Nikita; Gori, Stefania; Schuster, Philip; Toro, Natalia

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055033

Title: Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter

Abstract

A natural possibility for dark matter is that it is composed of the stable pions of a QCD-like hidden sector. Existing literature largely assumes that pion self-interactions alone control the early universe cosmology. We point out that processes involving vector mesons typically dominate the physics of dark matter freeze-out and significantly widen the viable mass range for these models. The vector mesons also give rise to striking signals at accelerators. For example, in most of the cosmologically favored parameter space, the vector mesons are naturally long-lived and produce standard model particles in their decays. Electron and proton beam fixed-target experiments such as HPS, SeaQuest, and LDMX can exploit these signals to explore much of the viable parameter space. As a result, we also comment on dark matter decay inherent in a large class of previously considered models and explain how to ensure dark matter stability.

Authors:: Berlin, Asher; Blinov, Nikita; Gori, Stefania; Schuster, Philip; Toro, Natalia

Publication Date:: 2018-03-23

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1429134

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1436474

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; PHY-1654502

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 97 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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                    Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Gori, Stefania, Schuster, Philip, and Toro, Natalia. Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Gori, Stefania, Schuster, Philip, & Toro, Natalia. Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055033

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                    Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Gori, Stefania, Schuster, Philip, and Toro, Natalia. Fri .  
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  title        = {Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter},

  author       = {Berlin, Asher and Blinov, Nikita and Gori, Stefania and Schuster, Philip and Toro, Natalia},

  abstractNote = {A natural possibility for dark matter is that it is composed of the stable pions of a QCD-like hidden sector. Existing literature largely assumes that pion self-interactions alone control the early universe cosmology. We point out that processes involving vector mesons typically dominate the physics of dark matter freeze-out and significantly widen the viable mass range for these models. The vector mesons also give rise to striking signals at accelerators. For example, in most of the cosmologically favored parameter space, the vector mesons are naturally long-lived and produce standard model particles in their decays. Electron and proton beam fixed-target experiments such as HPS, SeaQuest, and LDMX can exploit these signals to explore much of the viable parameter space. As a result, we also comment on dark matter decay inherent in a large class of previously considered models and explain how to ensure dark matter stability.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055033},

  journal      = {Physical Review D},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 97,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {3}

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