Elastically Decoupling Dark Matter.
We present a novel dark matter candidate, an elastically decoupling relic, which is a cold thermal relic whose present abundance is determined by the cross section of its elastic scattering on standard model particles. The dark matter candidate is predicted to have a mass ranging from a few to a few hundred MeV, and an elastic scattering cross section with electrons, photons and/or neutrinos in the 10^{-3}-1  fb range.
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
Eric
E
Kuflik
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
Maxim
M
Perelstein
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
Nicolas Rey-Le
NR
Lorier
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
Yu-Dai
YD
Tsai