@inproceedings{0d6e88a7225345bbb035bfe9d0f32e9c,
title = "Regge trajectories and Hagedorn behavior: Hadronic realizations of dynamical dark matter",
abstract = "Dynamical Dark Matter (DDM) is an alternative framework for dark-matter physics in which the dark sector comprises a vast ensemble of particle species whose Standard-Model decay widths are balanced against their cosmological abundances. In this talk, we study the properties of a hitherto-unexplored class of DDM ensembles in which the ensemble constituents are the {"}hadronic{"} resonances associated with the confining phase of a strongly-coupled dark sector. Such ensembles exhibit masses lying along Regge trajectories and Hagedorn-like densities of states that grow exponentially with mass. We investigate the applicable constraints on such dark-{"}hadronic{"} DDM ensembles and find that these constraints permit a broad range of mass and confinement scales for these ensembles. We also find that the distribution of the total present-day abundance across the ensemble is highly correlated with the values of these scales. This talk reports on research originally presented in Ref. [1].",
author = "Dienes, {Keith R.} and Fei Huang and Shufang Su and Brooks Thomas",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Author(s).; Workshop on Neutrino Physics and Unification, Near Detector Physics and Dark Matter, CETUP* 2016 ; Conference date: 06-06-2016 Through 15-07-2016",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1063/1.5010121",
language = "English (US)",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Barbara Szczerbinska and Kaladi Babu and Baha Balantekin and Louis Strigari and Sanjib Mishra and Pearl Sandick and Stuart Raby and Jason Kumar",
booktitle = "CETUP* 2016 - Workshop on Neutrino Physics and Unification, Near Detector Physics and Dark Matter",
}