Self Destructing Atomic DM

Abstract

Self-Destructing Dark Matter (SDDM) is a class of dark sector models in which the collision of a dark sector particle with the earth induces its prompt decay into Standard Model particles, generating unique signals at neutrino detectors. The inherent fragility of SDDM makes its survival from the early universe unlikely, implying a late time production mechanism. We present an efficient late time production mechanism for SDDM based on atomic rearrangement, the mechanism responsible for muon or anti-proton capture in hydrogen. In this model, an atomic rearrangement process occurs in our galaxy, converting dark atoms into highly excited bound states - our SDDM candidates. While the resulting SDDM is only a small fraction of the dark matter flux, its striking self-destruction signals imply a significant discovery reach in the existing data from the Super-Kamiokande experiment.

References in corpus (44)

• Dark Matter Search Results from a One Tonne$\times$Year Exposure of XENON1T
• Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure
• Dark Matter Results From 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment
• New Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheids from Spatially Scanning the Hubble Space Telescope: Implications for the Hubble Constant
• Search for a dark photon in e+e- collisions at BABAR
• A search for light dark matter in XENON10 data
• Light Dark Matter Search with Ionization Signals in XENON1T
• Supernova 1987A Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Sectors, Millicharged Particles, the QCD Axion, and an Axion-like Particle
• Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment
• Illuminating Dark Photons with High-Energy Colliders
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis After Planck
• The Dark Matter Halo of the Milky Way, AD 2013
• Results on light dark matter particles with a low-threshold CRESST-II detector
• Serendipity in dark photon searches
• First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector
• New Exclusion Limits on Dark Gauge Forces from Proton Bremsstrahlung in Beam-Dump Data
• The Cosmology of Atomic Dark Matter
• Double-Disk Dark Matter
• Search for $A^{\prime }\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decays
• Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with CDMSlite
• SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Constraints on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Surface Run
• Search for dark photons produced in 13 TeV $pp$ collisions
• (In)direct Detection of Boosted Dark Matter
• Measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux by Super-Kamiokande: energy spectra, geomagnetic effects, and solar modulation
• Baryon Destruction by Asymmetric Dark Matter
• SIMPle Dark Matter: Self-Interactions and keV Lines
• The Relic Abundance of Long-lived Heavy Colored Particles
• Colored Dark Matter
• Detecting Boosted Dark Matter from the Sun with Large Volume Neutrino Detectors
• Dark Matter as a weakly coupled Dark Baryon
• Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Analysis With Improved Event Reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande IV
• Boosted dark matter signals uplifted with self-interaction
• Direct Detection Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter
• Effects of Bound States on Dark Matter Annihilation
• Dark Matter "Collider" from Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter
• Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter by Nuclear Targets
• Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting With Electrons in Super-Kamiokande
• Dark Matter Induced Nucleon Decay: Model and Signatures
• Gluequark Dark Matter
• Boosted Dark Matter at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
• Combined limit on the production of a light gauge boson decaying into ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$
• Dark quarkonium formation in the early universe
• Search for the dark photon in ${\pi }^0$ decays by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN
• Self-Destructing Dark Matter

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Making the Universe at 20 MeV
• Saha equilibrium for metastable bound states and dark matter freeze-out
• Ultraheavy Atomic Dark Matter Freeze-Out through Rearrangement