Self-heating of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles

Abstract

It was recently pointed out that semi-annihilating dark matter (DM) may experience a novel temperature evolution dubbed as self-heating. Exothermic semi-annihilation converts the DM mass to the kinetic energy. This yields a unique DM temperature evolution, $T_{\chi }\propto 1/a$, in contrast to $T_{\chi }\propto 1/a^2$ for free-streaming non-relativistic particles. Self-heating continues as long as self-scattering sufficiently redistributes the energy of DM particles. In this paper, we study the evolution of cosmological perturbations in self-heating DM. We find that sub-GeV self-heating DM leaves a cutoff on the subgalactic scale of the matter power spectrum when the self-scattering cross section is ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{self}}/m_{\chi }\sim \mathcal{O}(1){\mathrm{cm}}^2/\mathrm{g}$. Then we present a particle physics realization of the self-heating DM scenario. The model is based on recently proposed strongly interacting massive particles with pion-like particles in a QCD-like sector. Pion-like particles semi-annihilate into an axion-like particle, which is thermalized with dark radiation. The dark radiation temperature is smaller than the standard model temperature, evading the constraint from the effective number of neutrino degrees of freedom. It is easily realized when the dark sector is populated from the standard model sector through a small coupling.

arXiv comment25 pages, 5 figures; minor corrections, version accepted in PRD

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