Decaying into the hidden sector

Joshua T. Rudermana, Tomer Volansky

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    Abstract

    The existence of light hidden sectors is an exciting possibility that may be tested in the near future. If DM is allowed to decay into such a hidden sector through GUT suppressed operators, it can accommodate the recent cosmic ray observations without over-producing antiprotons or interfering with the attractive features of the thermal WIMP. Models of this kind are simple to construct, generic and evade all astrophysical bounds. We provide tools for constructing such models and present several distinct examples. The light hidden spectrum and DM couplings can be probed in the near future, by measuring astrophysical photon and neutrino fluxes. These indirect signatures are complimentary to the direct production signals, such as lepton jets, predicted by these models.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Article number24
    JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
    Volume2010
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2010

    Keywords

    • Beyond standard model
    • Cosmology of theories beyond the SM

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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