Multi-component dark matter from a hidden gauged SU(3)

TL;DR

This paper explores the phenomenology of multi-component dark matter within a hidden gauged SU(3) framework, analyzing relic densities, detection prospects, and the impact of parameter variations on observability.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed study of multi-species dark matter in a hidden SU(3) model, including relic density calculations and detection implications, with benchmark analyses.

Findings

Relic densities depend on dark matter masses and gauge coupling values.

Detection prospects vary significantly across parameter space, affecting experimental strategies.

Relic density ratios can change with parameter variations, influencing observability.

Abstract

We study Dark Matter (DM) phenomenology with multiple DM species consisting of both scalar and vector DM particles. More specifically, we study the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model of Arcadi {\it et al}. Before proceeding to the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model, we study the relic abundances of simplified multi-species DM scenarios to gain some insights when multiple species and interactions are included. In the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model, because of the large parameter space, we restrict ourselves to three representative benchmark points, each with multiple DM species. The relic densities for the benchmark points were found using a program developed to solve the coupled Boltzmann equations for an arbitrary number of interacting DM species with two particles in the final state. For each case, we varied the mass of the DM particles and then found the value of the dark SU(3) gauge coupling that gives the correct relic density. We found that in some regions of the parameter space, the DM would be difficult to observe in direct detection experiments while easier to observe in indirect detection experiments and vice versa, so that complementary measurements could help pinpoint the details of the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model. Important to this, is that even for moderate changes in input parameter values, the relative relic density of each species can change significantly resulting in large changes in the observability of multi-species DM by direct or indirect detection.