Probing the Dark Sector with Dark Matter Bound States
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Victoria, BC (Canada); Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
A model of the dark sector where mass dark matter particles couple to a lighter dark force mediator , , is motivated by the recently discovered mismatch between simulated and observed shapes of galactic halos. Such models, in general, provide a challenge for direct detection efforts and collider searches. We demonstrate that for a large range of coupling constants and masses, the production and decay of the bound states of , such as and states, and , is an important search channel. We show that or production at factories for is sufficiently strong to result in multiple pairs of charged leptons and pions via and . The absence of such final states in the existing searches performed at BABAR and Belle sets new constraints on the parameter space of the model. We also show that a search for multiple bremsstrahlung of dark force mediators, , ending in missing energy and multiple leptons, will further improve the sensitivity to self-interacting dark matter.
- Research Organization:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011632; FG02-92ER40701; SC0010255; PHY-1066293
- OSTI ID:
- 1598357
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1246753
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 15; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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