X-rays from Inelastic Dark Matter Freeze-in
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| author | Krnjaic, Gordan McKeen, David Mizuta, Riku Mohlabeng, Gopolang Morrissey, David E. Tuckler, Douglas |
| author_facet | Krnjaic, Gordan McKeen, David Mizuta, Riku Mohlabeng, Gopolang Morrissey, David E. Tuckler, Douglas |
| contents | We study inelastic dark matter produced via freeze-in through a light mediator with a mass splitting below the electron-positron threshold. In this regime, the heavier dark matter state is naturally long-lived compared to the age of the Universe and decays to the lighter state in association with photons. Given a light mediator, the dark matter abundance is directly related to the decay rate of the heavier dark matter. We show that observations of photons from the galactic center can effectively probe inelastic dark matter freeze-in with mediators at the $100~\rm MeV$ scale and dark matter at the $\rm GeV$ scale. |
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| spellingShingle | X-rays from Inelastic Dark Matter Freeze-in Krnjaic, Gordan McKeen, David Mizuta, Riku Mohlabeng, Gopolang Morrissey, David E. Tuckler, Douglas High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We study inelastic dark matter produced via freeze-in through a light mediator with a mass splitting below the electron-positron threshold. In this regime, the heavier dark matter state is naturally long-lived compared to the age of the Universe and decays to the lighter state in association with photons. Given a light mediator, the dark matter abundance is directly related to the decay rate of the heavier dark matter. We show that observations of photons from the galactic center can effectively probe inelastic dark matter freeze-in with mediators at the $100~\rm MeV$ scale and dark matter at the $\rm GeV$ scale. |
| title | X-rays from Inelastic Dark Matter Freeze-in |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19428 |