Thermal Dark Matter from Freeze-Out of Inverse Decays

Ronny Frumkin; Yonit Hochberg; Eric Kuflik; Hitoshi Murayama

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.121001

Thermal Dark Matter from Freeze-Out of Inverse Decays

Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hitoshi Murayama

Racah Institute of Physics

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We propose a new thermal dark matter candidate whose abundance is determined by the freeze-out of inverse decays. The relic abundance depends parametrically only on a decay width, while matching the observed value requires that the coupling determining the width - and the width itself - should be exponentially small. The dark matter is therefore very weakly coupled to the standard model, evading conventional searches. This inverse decay dark matter can be discovered by searching for the long-lived particle that decays into the dark matter at future planned experiments.

Original language	English
Article number	121001
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	130
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.121001
State	Published - 24 Mar 2023

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