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The SIMP Miracle by Hochberg, Yonit; Kuflik, Eric; Volansky, Tomer; Wacker, Jay G. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The SIMP Miracle about?

We present a new paradigm for achieving thermal relic dark matter. The mechanism arises when a nearly secluded dark sector is thermalized with the Standard Model after reheating. The freezeout process is a number-changing 3->2 annihilation of strongly-interacting-massive-particles (SIMPs) in the dark sector, and points to sub-GeV dark matter. The couplings to the visible sector, necessary for maintaining thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model, imply measurable signals that will allow coverage of a significant part of the parameter space with future indirect- and direct-detection experiments and via direct production of dark matter at colliders. Moreover, 3->2 annihilations typically predict sizable 2->2 self-interactions which naturally address the `core vs. cusp' and `too-big-to-fail' small structure problems.

Author

Hochberg, Yonit; Kuflik, Eric; Volansky, Tomer; Wacker, Jay G.

Published

2014

Language

EN