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Searching for super-WIMPs in leptonic heavy meson decays

Authors :
Aditya, Y. G.
Healey, Kristopher J.
Petrov, Alexey A.
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

We study constraints on the models of bosonic super-weakly interacting particle (super-WIMP) dark matter (DM) with DM masses $m_X \sim \mathcal{O}(1 - 100)$ keV from leptonic decays $M\rightarrow \ell \bar{\nu}_\ell + X$, where $M=B^\pm, D^\pm, D_s^\pm$ is a heavy meson state. We focus on two cases where $X$ denotes either a light pseudoscalar (axion-like), or a light vector state that couples to the standard model (SM) through kinetic mixing. We note that for a small DM mass these decays are separately sensitive to DM couplings to quarks, but not its mass.<br />Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1201.1007
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.042