Fuzzy Dark Matter from Infrared Confining Dynamics

Davoudiasl, Hooman; Murphy, Christopher W.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.141801

Title: Fuzzy Dark Matter from Infrared Confining Dynamics

Journal Article · Mon Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.141801· OSTI ID:1377019

Davoudiasl, Hooman ^[1]; Murphy, Christopher W. ^[1]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics

A very light boson of mass O ( 10 ^{- 22} ) eV may potentially be a viable dark matter (DM) candidate, which can avoid phenomenological problems associated with cold DM. Such “fuzzy DM (FDM)” may naturally be an axion with a decay constant f _a ~ 1 0 ¹⁶– 1 0 ¹⁸ GeV and a mass m _a ~ μ ² / f _a with μ ~ 1 0 ² eV . Here, we propose a concrete model, where μ arises as a dynamical scale from infrared confining dynamics, analogous to QCD. This model is an alternative to the usual approach of generating μ through string theoretic instanton effects. We outline the features of this scenario that result from various cosmological constraints. We also found that those constraints are suggestive of a period of mild of inflation, perhaps from a strong first order phase transition, that reheats the standard model (SM) sector only. A typical prediction of our scenario, broadly speaking, is a larger effective number of neutrinos compared to the SM value N _eff ≈ 3 , as inferred from precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background. Some of the new degrees of freedom may be identified as “sterile neutrinos,” which may be required to explain certain neutrino oscillation anomalies. Thus, aspects of our scenario could be testable in terrestrial experiments, which is a novelty of our FDM model.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1377019

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1349705

Report Number(s):: BNL-114133-2017-JA; PRLTAO; KA2401012; TRN: US1702811

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 14; ISSN 0031-9007

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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