Dark Glueball Direct Detection
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| author | Li, Ji-Wei Pasechnik, Roman Wang, Wei Wang, Zhi-Wei |
| author_facet | Li, Ji-Wei Pasechnik, Roman Wang, Wei Wang, Zhi-Wei |
| contents | We consider glueball dark matter (DM) in a Yang-Mills dark sector confined at $Λ_D$ scale and coupled to the Standard Model through electrically and dark-color charged vector-like fermion portals, with the mass scale $m_ψ$. In a simple case with two lightest mass-degenerate vector-like fermions with opposite electric charges the effective amplitudes with one $C$-odd glueball (oddball) and odd number of photons vanish, rendering the lightest $C$-odd spin-1 state with mass $m_χ$ a viable DM candidate provided that $m_ψ\gtrsim 5.5 Λ_D$. We develop a controlled effective field theory framework with non-perturbative information supported by QCD phenomenology leading to a quantitative prediction for coherent elastic glueball scattering off nuclei. We find a steep scaling of the spin-independent cross section $σ_{\rm SI}\propto Λ_D^{2.15} m_ψ^{-8}$. This implies that the sensitivity of the current and next-generation xenon experiments in the range of $σ_{\rm SI} \sim 10^{-46} - 10^{-48}$ cm$^2$ corresponds to $m_ψ\simeq 3-30$ GeV, respectively, for $Λ_D\simeq 0.55-5.5$ GeV. We provide a minimal UV completion of the portal sector compatible with collider phenomenology. Our results pave a quantitative foundation for testing glueball DM in direct-detection experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | Dark Glueball Direct Detection Li, Ji-Wei Pasechnik, Roman Wang, Wei Wang, Zhi-Wei High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory We consider glueball dark matter (DM) in a Yang-Mills dark sector confined at $Λ_D$ scale and coupled to the Standard Model through electrically and dark-color charged vector-like fermion portals, with the mass scale $m_ψ$. In a simple case with two lightest mass-degenerate vector-like fermions with opposite electric charges the effective amplitudes with one $C$-odd glueball (oddball) and odd number of photons vanish, rendering the lightest $C$-odd spin-1 state with mass $m_χ$ a viable DM candidate provided that $m_ψ\gtrsim 5.5 Λ_D$. We develop a controlled effective field theory framework with non-perturbative information supported by QCD phenomenology leading to a quantitative prediction for coherent elastic glueball scattering off nuclei. We find a steep scaling of the spin-independent cross section $σ_{\rm SI}\propto Λ_D^{2.15} m_ψ^{-8}$. This implies that the sensitivity of the current and next-generation xenon experiments in the range of $σ_{\rm SI} \sim 10^{-46} - 10^{-48}$ cm$^2$ corresponds to $m_ψ\simeq 3-30$ GeV, respectively, for $Λ_D\simeq 0.55-5.5$ GeV. We provide a minimal UV completion of the portal sector compatible with collider phenomenology. Our results pave a quantitative foundation for testing glueball DM in direct-detection experiments. |
| title | Dark Glueball Direct Detection |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18753 |