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  • Letter
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New realization of light thermal self-interacting dark matter and detection prospects

Debasish Borah1, Satyabrata Mahapatra2, and Narendra Sahu2

  • 1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
  • 2Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502285, Telangana, India

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Phys. Rev. D 108, L091702 – Published 13 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L091702

Abstract

Light dark matter (DM) in the GeV ballpark faces weaker constraint from direct detection experiments. If such DM also has sufficient self-interactions due to a light mediator, it can alleviate the small-scale problems of the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm while being consistent with the latter at large scales, as suggested by astrophysical observations. However, generating the correct thermal relic for such light DM is challenging. While GeV scale CDM typically leads to thermal overproduction due to the absence of sufficient annihilation channels, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) typically has an under-abundant thermal relic due to its large annihilation rates into mediator particles. In this Letter, we propose a minimal realization of GeV scale SIDM with correct thermal relic, where one of the three singlet fermions, responsible for seesaw origin of light neutrino masses, assists in generating correct SIDM relic density via freeze-out. The setup thereby encompasses astrophysical as well as cosmological aspects of light DM while simultaneously providing a solution to the origin of light neutrino mass. Because of such a connection to several frontiers, there exist exciting discovery prospects in terms of direct and indirect search of DM, laboratory and cosmology based dark photon signatures and effective light neutrino mass.

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Phys. Rev. D 108, L091702– Published 13 November, 2023
  • Received 12 December 2022
  • Revised 12 May 2023
  • Accepted 19 October 2023
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