Resonant Assisted Annihilation

Abstract

Assisted annihilation is a novel mechanism to generate viable sub-GeV thermal dark matter, where a pair of stable dark matter annihilates with an assister to Standard Model states. Typically such $3\to 2$ annihilation topologies are flux suppressed compared to $2\to 2$ processes. In this paper, we explore the possibility of a resonant $3\to 2$ assisted annihilation dominantly driving the freeze-out of dark matter. We demonstrate that in a simple multipartite scalar extension of the Standard Model this can be realized in certain regions of parameter space to provide viable dark matter relic density, in agreement with observation. We demonstrate that for photophilic assisters parts of the parameter space are already constrained by indirect detection experiments and the measurements of CMB anisotropies while substantial regions remain beyond the present limit.

15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Accepted for publication in JCAP

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