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Case for decaying spin- 3/2 dark matter

We couple a sterile neutrino sector to a spin-3/2 particle and show that with a Planck reduced coupling, we can naturally obtain a sufficiently long lifetime making the spin-3/2 particle… Click to show full abstract

We couple a sterile neutrino sector to a spin-3/2 particle and show that with a Planck reduced coupling, we can naturally obtain a sufficiently long lifetime making the spin-3/2 particle a good dark matter candidate. We show that this dark matter candidate can be produced during inflationary reheating through the scattering of Standard Model particles. The relic abundance as determined by Planck and other experimental measurements is attained for reasonable values of the reheating temperature $T_{\rm RH} \gtrsim 10^{8}$ GeV. We consider two possible gauge invariant couplings to the extended Standard Model. We find a large range of masses are possible which respect the experimental limits on its decay rate. We expect smoking gun signals in the form of a monochromatic photon with a possible monochromatic neutrino, which can be probed in the near future in IceCube and other indirect detection experiments.

Keywords: case decaying; spin dark; dark matter; decaying spin; matter

Journal Title: Physical Review D
Year Published: 2020

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