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Light dark matter through resonance scanning

Djuna Croon1,*, Gilly Elor2,†, Rachel Houtz3,‡, Hitoshi Murayama4,5,§, and Graham White6,∥

  • 1TRIUMF Theory Group, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, D.C. 98195, USA
  • 3Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
  • 4Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 5Theory Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 6Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

  • *dcroon@triumf.ca
  • †gelor@uw.edu
  • ‡rachel.houtz@durham.ac.uk
  • §hitoshi@berkeley.edu
  • ∥graham.white@ipmu.jp
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Phys. Rev. D 105, L061303 – Published 28 March, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L061303

Abstract

We propose a new out-of-equilibrium production mechanism of light dark matter: resonance scanning. If the dark matter mass evolved in the early Universe, resonant production may have occurred for a wide range of light dark matter masses today. We show that the dark matter relic abundance may be produced through the Higgs portal, in a manner consistent with current experimental constraints.

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Phys. Rev. D 105, L061303– Published 28 March, 2022
  • Received 22 January 2021
  • Revised 16 June 2021
  • Accepted 9 March 2022
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