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Direct detection portals for self-interacting dark matter

Manoj Kaplinghat1, Sean Tulin2, and Hai-Bo Yu3

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
  • 2Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California 92507, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 035009 – Published 19 February, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.035009

Abstract

Dark matter self-interactions can affect the small scale structure of the Universe, reducing the central densities of dwarfs and low surface brightness galaxies in accord with observations. From a particle physics point of view, this points toward the existence of a 1–100 MeV particle in the dark sector that mediates self-interactions. Since mediator particles will generically couple to the Standard Model, direct detection experiments provide sensitive probes of self-interacting dark matter. We consider three minimal mechanisms for coupling the dark and visible sectors: photon kinetic mixing, Z boson mass mixing, and the Higgs portal. Self-interacting dark matter motivates a new benchmark paradigm for direct detection via momentum-dependent interactions, and ton-scale experiments will cover astrophysically motivated parameter regimes that are unconstrained by current limits. Direct detection is a complementary avenue to constrain velocity-dependent self-interactions that evade astrophysical bounds from larger scales, such as those from the bullet cluster.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 035009– Published 19 February, 2014
  • Received 30 November 2013

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