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Published June 16, 2014 | Published + Submitted
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Self-Interacting Dark Matter from a Non-Abelian Hidden Sector

Abstract

There is strong evidence in favor of the idea that dark matter is self interacting, with the cross section-to-mass ratio σ/m∼1  cm^2/g∼1  barn/GeV. We show that viable models of dark matter with this large cross section are straightforwardly realized with non-Abelian hidden sectors. In the simplest of such models, the hidden sector is a pure gauge theory, and the dark matter is composed of hidden glueballs with a mass around 100 MeV. Alternatively, the hidden sector may be a supersymmetric pure gauge theory with a ∼10  TeV gluino thermal relic. In this case, the dark matter is largely composed of glueballinos that strongly self interact through the exchange of light glueballs. We present a unified framework that realizes both of these possibilities in anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking, where, depending on a few model parameters, the dark matter may be composed of hidden glueballinos, hidden glueballs, or a mixture of the two. These models provide simple examples of multicomponent dark matter, have interesting implications for particle physics and cosmology, and include cases where a subdominant component of dark matter may be extremely strongly self interacting, with interesting astrophysical consequences.

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© 2014 American Physical Society. Published 16 June 2014. Received 17 February 2014. We are grateful for helpful conversations with David B. Kaplan, Jared Kaplan, Matthew Reece, Ira Rothstein, Yael Shadmi, Jessie Shelton, Sean Tulin, and Hai-Bo Yu. K.B. thanks the UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy for hospitality throughout this work. K.B. is supported in part by U.S. DOE grant No. DE-FG02-92ER40701 and by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant No. 776 to the Caltech Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics. J.L.F. and T.M.P.T. are supported in part by U.S. NSF grant No. PHY-1316792. T.M.P.T. is further supported in part by the University of California, Irvine through a Chancellor's Fellowship. M.K. is supported in part by NSF Grants No. PHY-1214648 and No. PHY-1316792. We used the LSODA software from LLNL [104, 105] to solve the Schrödinger equation. All other calculations were performed with Mathematica 8.0.

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