Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 105, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.055009
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- National Science Foundation of China [12075005, 12005009]
- Peking University [7101502458]
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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The study explores how cosmological evolution can alter dark matter properties and introduces a novel mechanism of transient dark matter annihilation, in line with existing dark matter detection results.
The cosmological evolution can modify the dark matter (DM) properties in the early Universe to be vastly different from the properties today. Therefore, the relation between the relic abundance and the DM constraints today needs to be revisited. We propose novel transient annihilations of DM that helps to alleviate the pressure from DM null detection results. As a concrete example, we consider the vector portal DM and focus on the mass evolution of the dark photon. When the Universe cools down, the gauge boson mass can increase monotonically and go across several important thresholds, opening new transient annihilation channels in the early Universe. Those channels are either forbidden or weakened at the late Universe, which helps to evade the indirect searches. In particular, the transient resonant channel can survive direct detection (DD) without tuning the DM to be half of the dark photon mass and can be soon tested by future DD or collider experiments. A feature of the scenario is the existence of a light dark scalar.
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