Resonant SIMP dark matter

TL;DR

This paper explores a resonant SIMP dark matter model with two scalar fields and a broken dark gauge symmetry, demonstrating how resonance enhances annihilation and satisfies observational bounds.

Contribution

It introduces a novel resonant SIMP dark matter scenario with a specific gauge symmetry breaking pattern and analyzes its relic density and self-scattering constraints.

Findings

Enhanced 3→2 annihilation cross section near resonance

Simultaneous satisfaction of relic density and self-scattering bounds

Kinetic mixing enables thermal equilibrium with Standard Model

Abstract

We consider a resonant SIMP dark matter in models with two singlet complex scalar fields charged under a local dark $U(1)_D$. After the $U(1)_D$ is broken down to a $Z_5$ discrete subgroup, the lighter scalar field becomes a SIMP dark matter which has the enhanced $3\rightarrow 2$ annihilation cross section near the resonance of the heavier scalar field. Bounds on the SIMP self-scattering cross section and the relic density can be fulfilled at the same time for perturbative couplings of SIMP. A small gauge kinetic mixing between the SM hypercharge and dark gauge bosons can be used to make SIMP dark matter in kinetic equilibrium with the SM during freeze-out.