Bi-gravity Portal Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper explores a bi-gravity portal model where a massive spin-2 particle mediates interactions between dark matter and Standard Model particles, addressing core-cusp issues and providing testable predictions for upcoming experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a ghost-free bi-gravity portal model with a massive spin-2 mediator, analyzing its implications for dark matter detection and cosmological constraints.

Findings

The model's cross-sections are consistent with current experimental bounds.

The massive spin-2 mediator helps resolve the core-cusp problem.

There is a viable parameter space for future detection experiments.

Abstract

We consider a model where the interaction between dark matter and the Standard Model particles are mediated by a ghost-free bi-gravity portal. The bi-gravity model invokes a massive spin-2 particle coupled to the usual massless graviton as well as generic bi-metric matter couplings. The cross-sections for dark matter direct detection are computed and confronted with the experimental bounds. The presence of the massive spin-2 mediator resolves the core-cusp problem, which in turn significantly constrains the dark matter coupling in such a bi-gravity theory. Yet, there remains a window of the parameter space where the model can be tested in the upcoming direct detection experiments such as XENONnT and PandaX-30T. The model also predicts a reheating temperature of the order of $10^6$ GeV.