Holographic Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper proposes a holographic model of dark matter originating from a 5D bulk black hole in a braneworld scenario, explaining its production and abundance with a natural freeze-in mechanism and consistent with experimental bounds.

Contribution

It introduces a novel holographic framework for dark matter based on a 5D linear dilaton spacetime and details a freeze-in production mechanism from bulk black hole dynamics.

Findings

Dark matter originates from a bulk black hole in a holographic braneworld.

The black hole phase is thermodynamically favored at all temperatures.

The model's parameters are consistent with experimental bounds for M_5 ≥ 3×10^5 TeV.

Abstract

Cold dark matter may be a fluid (or plasma) residing in a strongly-interacting hidden sector, rather than a population of weakly-coupled particles. Such a scenario admits a holographic description in terms of a cosmological braneworld embedded in the linear dilaton five-dimensional (5D) spacetime. In this framework, dark matter originates from the linear dilaton bulk black hole, whose phase we show to be thermodynamically favored at all temperatures. We present a natural freeze-in mechanism for the production of holographic dark matter, in which the bulk black hole is fed by energy leaking from the brane after inflation. Our model is characterized by two free parameters, one of which, the position of the black hole horizon, is fixed by the observed dark matter abundance. The remaining parameter, the 5D Planck scale $M_5$, is consistent with all current experimental bounds provided that $M_5\gtrsim 3\times 10^5$ TeV.