New Thermal Relic Targets for Inelastic Vector-Portal Dark Matter

Abstract

We examine the vector-portal inelastic dark matter (DM) model with DM mass $m_{\chi }$ and dark photon mass $m_{A^{\prime }}$, in the `forbidden dark matter' regime where $1\lesssim m_{A^{\prime }}/m_{\chi }\lesssim 2$, carefully tracking the dark sector temperature throughout freezeout. The inelastic nature of the dark sector relaxes the stringent cosmic microwave background (CMB) and self-interaction constraints compared to symmetric DM models. We determine the CMB limits on both annihilations involving excited states and annihilation into $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ through initial-state-radiation of an $A^{\prime }$, as well as limits on the DM self-scattering, which proceeds at the one-loop level. The unconstrained parameter space serves as an ideal target for accelerator $A^{\prime }$ searches, and provides a DM self-interaction cross section that is large enough to observably impact small-scale structure.

arXiv comment5 pages, 2 figures + supplemental material 8 pages, 3 figures

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