Abstract
A model of the dark sector where mass dark matter particles couple to a lighter dark force mediator , , is motivated by the recently discovered mismatch between simulated and observed shapes of galactic halos. Such models, in general, provide a challenge for direct detection efforts and collider searches. We show that for a large range of coupling constants and masses, the production and decay of the bound states of , such as and states, and , is an important search channel. We show that or production at factories for is sufficiently strong to result in multiple pairs of charged leptons and pions via and . The absence of such final states in the existing searches performed at BABAR and Belle sets new constraints on the parameter space of the model. We also show that a search for multiple bremsstrahlung of dark force mediators, , resulting in missing energy and multiple leptons, will further improve the sensitivity to self-interacting dark matter.
- Received 29 October 2015
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.151801
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