TY - JOUR
T1 - Massive Gravitons as Feebly Interacting Dark Matter Candidates
AU - Cai, Haiying
AU - Cacciapaglia, Giacomo
AU - Lee, Seung J.
N1 - Funding Information:
H. C. and S. L. were supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. NRF-2021R1A2C1005615). H. C. acknowledges the support of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, SJTU where this project is initiated. G. C. and S. L also acknowledge support from the Campus-France STAR project “Higgs and dark matter connections.”
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Funded by SCOAP3.
PY - 2022/2/25
Y1 - 2022/2/25
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.081806
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.081806
M3 - Article
C2 - 35275667
AN - SCOPUS:85125998671
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 128
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 8
M1 - 081806
ER -