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Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Chengfeng Cai, Mads T. Frandsen, Martin Rosenlyst, Hong Hao Zhang
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
In a recent letter we proposed a new nonthermal mechanism of dark matter production based on vacuum misalignment, where both the Higgs boson and a very light pseudoscalar η emerge from the dark sector. In this paper, we identify the parameter space in a composite scenario where the light pseudoscalar can be produced in the sun and explain the XENON1T excess in electron recoil data. The model's dark matter candidate has a mass around 50 TeV and out of range for direct detection. Testable predictions include gravitational waves at frequencies in the Hz range from a cosmological phase transition, an exotic decay Z→γ+inv with rates 4÷16×10-12 testable at a future Tera-Z collider, and an enhancement by 17÷40% of the branching ratio KL→π0+inv, not enough to explain the KOTO anomaly. All these predictions may be confirmed by future experiments.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 075018 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 102 |
Issue number | 7 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 2470-0010 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1. Oct 2020 |
Research output: Thesis › Ph.D. thesis