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MeV-scale暗扇区上的BBN约束。部分II。电磁衰变

BBN constraints on MeV-scale dark sectors. Part II. Electromagnetic decays

Marco Hufnagel, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Sebastian Wild

摘要:

亚稳定的暗区粒子衰变成电子或光子可能会显著改变哈勃速率,导致熵注入到标准模型粒子的热浴中,也可能使早期宇宙中形成的轻核发生光致衰变。我们研究了大爆炸核合成在这样一个设置上的一般约束,特别强调在大爆炸核合成的所有相关时间内既不是完全相对论性的,也不是非相对论性的MeV级粒子。我们将我们的结果应用到一个简单的模型,自相互作用的暗物质与轻标量调解。事实证明,这种设置受到这些考虑因素与直接暗物质搜索相结合的严重限制,并将通过下一代低阈值直接探测实验进行全面测试。

英文摘要:

Meta-stable dark sector particles decaying into electrons or photons may non-trivially change the Hubble rate, lead to entropy injection into the thermal bath of Standard Model particles and may also photodisintegrate light nuclei formed in the early universe. We study generic constraints from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis on such a setup, with a particular emphasis on MeV-scale particles which are neither fully relativistic nor non-relativistic during all times relevant for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. We apply our results to a simple model of self-interacting dark matter with a light scalar mediator. This setup turns out to be severely constrained by these considerations in combination with direct dark matter searches and will be fully tested with the next generation of low-threshold direct detection experiments.

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