PeV-scale dark matter as a thermal relic of a decoupled sector
In this letter, we consider a class of scenarios in which the dark matter is part of a heavy hidden sector that is thermally decoupled from the Standard Model in the early universe. The dark matter freezes-out by annihilating to a lighter, metastable state, whose subsequent abundance can naturally c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Physics Letters B |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316302908 |