A multi-temperature universe can allow a sub-MeV dark photon dark matter

Abstract

An analysis of sub-MeV dark photon as dark matter is given which is achieved with two hidden sectors, one of which interacts directly with the visible sector while the second has only indirect coupling with the visible sector. The formalism for the evolution of three bath temperatures for the visible sector and the two hidden sectors is developed and utilized in solution of Boltzmann equations coupling the three sectors. We present exclusion plots where the sub-MeV dark photon can be dark matter. The analysis can be extended to a multi-temperature universe with multiple hidden sectors and multiple heat baths.

arXiv comment33 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables -- Accepted in JHEP

References in corpus (65)

• Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
• Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter
• Freeze-In Production of FIMP Dark Matter
• Dark Matter Self-interactions and Small Scale Structure
• WISPy Cold Dark Matter
• New Fixed-Target Experiments to Search for Dark Gauge Forces
• Dark Matter Halos as Particle Colliders: A Unified Solution to Small-Scale Structure Puzzles from Dwarfs to Clusters
• Search for a dark photon in e+e- collisions at BABAR
• Indirect Dark Matter Signatures in the Cosmic Dark Ages I. Generalizing the Bound on s-wave Dark Matter Annihilation from Planck
• Vector Dark Matter from Inflationary Fluctuations
• Dark Matter and Dark Radiation
• The Four Basic Ways of Creating Dark Matter Through a Portal
• Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Dark Matter with a Yukawa Potential
• Bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter
• The Stueckelberg $Z^{\prime }$ Extension with Kinetic Mixing and Milli-Charged Dark Matter From the Hidden Sector
• The Dark Photon
• New stellar constraints on dark photons
• Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations
• Serendipity in dark photon searches
• Dissipative hidden sector dark matter
• New Limits on Hidden Photons from Past Electron Beam Dumps
• Dark Matter Self-Interactions and Light Force Carriers
• Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors
• Relic Abundance of Dark Photon Dark Matter
• Particle Models and the Small-Scale Structure of Dark Matter
• A Stueckelberg Extension of the Standard Model
• Dark Photon Dark Matter Produced by Axion Oscillations
• Massive hidden photons as lukewarm dark matter
• Parametric Resonance Production of Ultralight Vector Dark Matter
• Searching for Dark Absorption with Direct Detection Experiments
• Production of Purely Gravitational Dark Matter: The Case of Fermion and Vector Boson
• Dark Photon Dark Matter from a Network of Cosmic Strings
• Dark Sectors 2016 Workshop: Community Report
• Gravitational production of vector dark matter
• Hidden fermion as milli-charged dark matter in Stueckelberg Z' model
• Search for a Hypothetical 16.7 MeV Gauge Boson and Dark Photons in the NA64 Experiment at CERN
• Constraints on Hidden Photon Models from Electron g-2 and Hydrogen Spectroscopy
• Improved limits on a hypothetical X(16.7) boson and a dark photon decaying into $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ pairs
• The Cosmological Evolution of Light Dark Photon Dark Matter
• Solving the small-scale structure puzzles with dissipative dark matter
• Dark Photon Oscillations in Our Inhomogeneous Universe
• Velocity-dependent Self-interacting Dark Matter from Groups and Clusters of Galaxies
• The High-Energy Frontier of the Intensity Frontier: Closing the Dark Photon, Inelastic Dark Matter, and Muon g-2 Windows
• Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube
• The Stueckelberg Z Prime at the LHC: Discovery Potential, Signature Spaces and Model Discrimination
• Dark matter from dark photons: a taxonomy of dark matter production
• Misalignment & Co.: (Pseudo-)scalar and vector dark matter with curvature couplings
• An ultralight pseudoscalar boson
• Portal Connecting Dark Photons and Axions
• Freeze-Twin Dark Matter
• Galactic Center Gas Clouds and Novel Bounds on Ultra-Light Dark Photon, Vector Portal, Strongly Interacting, Composite, and Super-Heavy Dark Matter
• Dark Photon Dark Matter in the Presence of Inhomogeneous Structure
• An Ultralight Axion in Supersymmetry and Strings and Cosmology at Small Scales
• MeV Dark Matter Complementarity and the Dark Photon Portal
• Dark Photon Decay Beyond The Euler-Heisenberg Limit
• Light Dark Photon Dark Matter from Inflation
• Effective photon mass and (dark) photon conversion in the inhomogeneous Universe
• Dark photon relic dark matter production through the dark axion portal
• Self-interacting hidden sector dark matter, small scale galaxy structure anomalies, and a dark force
• Freeze-in Dark Matter from Secret Neutrino Interactions
• Detecting hidden sector dark matter at HL-LHC and HE-LHC via long-lived stau decays
• Stealth decaying spin-1 dark matter
• Dark Photon Dark Matter in the minimal $B-L$ Model
• A long-lived stop with freeze-in and freeze-out dark matter in the hidden sector
• Expanding the parameter space of natural supersymmetry

Cited by in corpus (8)

• A cosmologically consistent millicharged dark matter solution to the EDGES anomaly of possible string theory origin
• Analyzing the Hubble tension through hidden sector dynamics in the early universe
• Combined constraints on dark photons and discovery prospects at the LHC and the Forward Physics Facility
• A tower of hidden sectors: a general treatment and physics implications
• Hidden sectors and a multi-temperature universe
• Darker matter generating from the dark
• Particle physics and cosmology intertwined
• Freeze-in Production of Non-Abelian Millicharged Vector Dark Matter