Bi-gravity Portal Dark Matter

Author:

Qing Chen, Shuang-Yong Zhou

Keyword:

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

journal:

USTC-ICTS/PCFT-23-30

date:

2023-10-03 16:00:00

Abstract

We consider a model where the interaction between dark matter and the Standard Model particles are mediated by a ghost-free bi-gravity portal. The bi-gravity model invokes a massive spin-2 particle coupled to the usual massless graviton as well as generic bi-metric matter couplings. The cross-sections for dark matter direct detection are computed and confronted with the experimental bounds. The presence of the massive spin-2 mediator resolves the core-cusp problem, which in turn significantly constrains the dark matter coupling in such a bi-gravity theory. Yet, there remains a window of the parameter space where the model can be tested in the upcoming direct detection experiments such as XENONnT and PandaX-30T. The model also predicts a reheating temperature of the order of $10^6$ GeV.

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