Formation of Dimers in Axion-Like Dark Matter Using the Feshbach Resonance

TL;DR

This paper investigates the formation of particle dimers in axion-like dark matter using quantum mechanical models, Feshbach resonance, and deformation of the interaction potential, suggesting dimers could influence galaxy halo structures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum mechanical approach with a deformed potential and Feshbach resonance to model dimer formation in axion-like dark matter.

Findings

Identification of a long-lived resonance at deformation parameter μ=1

Simple ground state solution for dimers with infinite scattering length

Potential role of dimers in galaxy dark matter halos

Abstract

Within the model of self-gravitating Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter (DM) it is argued that the axion-like self-interaction of ultralight bosons provides the existence of rarefied and dense phases, which are predicted earlier on the base of the models with polynomial-like self-interactions. Associating the very short scattering length in BEC DM with the predominant participating composites of few DM particles, we attempt to form a dimer of two particles at a quantum mechanical level, using a smooth $\mu$-deformation of the axion cosine-like potential and replacing the field-dependent argument with the distance between particles. Part of the obtained results concerns potential two-particle scattering with $\mu$-deformed interaction, and they allow us to focus on a special option with unique values of the deformation parameter $\mu=1$ and the coupling constant. In this case of the potential with an infinite scattering length, we get a rather simple solution for the dimer in the ground state. We involve two-channel scattering and Feshbach resonance to describe the formation of a dimer in space. Specifying the parameters of interactions, we reveal a long-lived resonance that occurs when a pair of particles jumps between the open and closed scattering channels with close energy values. This indicates the possibility of participation of such dimers in forming BEC DM halo of galaxies.