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Record Nr.

UNINA9910720060403321

Autore

Fujiwara Motoko

Titolo

Electroweak-interacting spin-1 dark matter and its phenomenology / / Motoko Fujiwara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9789819910359

9789819910342

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (104 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061

Disciplina

523.1126

Soggetti

Dark matter (Astronomy)

Nuclear spin

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- WIMP Dark Matter and Its Thermal History -- Electroweakly Interacting Spin-1 Dark Matter -- Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theory For Spin-1 Dark Matter -- Thermal Relic Evaluation -- Gamma-ray Signatures and Dark Matter Spin Discrimination -- Conclusions -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers construction of a renormalizable effective theory of electroweak-interacting spin-1 dark matter (DM). The effective theory realizes minimal but essential features of DM predicted in extra-dimension models, and enables to systematically treat non-perturbative corrections such as the Sommerfeld effects. Deriving an annihilation cross section including the Sommerfeld effects based on the effective theory, the author discusses the future sensitivity of observations to gamma-ray from the Galactic Center. As a result, the author explains the monochromatic gamma-ray signatures originate from two photons (γγ) or photon and Z boson (γZ) produced in the process of DM annihilations, and concludes a possible scenario that unstable neutral spin-1 particles (Z’) appear and results in a spectral peak in addition to the one caused by γγ and γZ channels in gamma-



ray observations. If those two spectral peaks are observed, the masses of spin-1 DM and Z’ would be reconstructed.