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Published March 15, 2013 | Published + Submitted
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Resonant Dark Forces and Small-Scale Structure

Abstract

A dark force can impact the cosmological history of dark matter (DM), both explaining observed cores in dwarf galaxies and setting the DM relic density through annihilation to dark force bosons. For GeV–TeV DM mass, DM self-scattering in dwarf galaxy halos exhibits quantum mechanical resonances, analogous to a Sommerfeld enhancement for annihilation. We show that a simple model of DM with a dark force can accommodate all astrophysical bounds on self-interactions in halos and explain the observed relic density, through a single coupling constant.

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© 2013 American Physical Society. (Received 19 October 2012; published 12 March 2013) We thank the Aspen Center for Physics and the Institute for Advanced Study where part of this work was done. The work of S. T., H.-B. Y., and K. M. Z. is supported by the DoE under Contract No. de-sc0007859. The work of H.-B. Y. and K. M. Z. is also supported by NASA Astrophysics Theory Grant No. NNX11AI17G and NSF CAREER Award No. PHY 1049896.

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