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arxiv: 1512.04545 · v1 · pith:ZHZ7NBVSnew · submitted 2015-12-14 · ✦ hep-ph

Elastically Decoupling Dark Matter

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We present a novel dark matter candidate, an Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER), 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.

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