Massive Gravitons as Feebly Interacting Dark Matter Candidates

We detail our discovery of a chiral enhancement in the production cross sections of massive spin-2 gravitons, below the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, that makes them ideal dark matter candidates for the freeze-in mechanism. The result is independent of the physics at high scales and points toward masses in the keV-MeV range. The graviton is, therefore, a sub-MeV dark matter particle, as favored by the small scale galaxy structures. We apply the novel calculation to a Randall-Sundrum model with multiple branes, showing a significant parameter space where the first two massive gravitons saturate the dark matter relic density.

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In this study, we present our discovery of a chiral enhancement in the production cross sections of massive spin-2 gravitons below the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, which makes them ideal dark matter candidates for the freeze-in mechanism. The result is independent of physics at high scales and points to graviton masses in the keV-MeV range, suggesting that gravitons could be sub-MeV dark matter particles, consistent with the preferred scale of small galaxy structures. We apply this novel calculation to a Randall-Sundrum model with multiple branes, demonstrating a significant parameter space where the first two massive gravitons saturate the dark matter relic density.