Scalar Dark Matter candidates
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چکیده
We investigate the possibility that Dark Matter could be made of scalar candidates and focus, in particular, on the unusual mass range between a few MeV’s and a few GeV’s. After showing why the Lee-Weinberg limit (which usually forbids a Dark Matter mass below a few GeV’s) does not necessarily apply in the case of scalar particles, we discuss how light candidates (mdm < O(GeV) ) can satisfy both the gamma ray and relic density constraints. We find two possibilities. Either Dark Matter is coupled to heavy fermions (but if mdm <∼ 100 MeV, an asymmetry between the Dark Matter particle and antiparticle number densities is likely to be required), or Dark Matter is coupled to a new light gauge boson U . The (collisional) damping of light candidates is, in some circumstances, large enough to be mentioned, but in most cases too small to generate a non linear matter power spectrum at the present epoch that differs significantly from the Cold Dark Matter spectrum. On the other hand, heavier scalar Dark Matter particles (i.e. with mdm >∼ O(GeV)) turn out to be much less constrained. We finally discuss a theoretical framework for scalar candidates, inspired from theories with N = 2 extended supersymmetry and/or extra space dimensions, in which the Dark Matter stability results from a new discrete (or continuous) symmetry.
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