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A new dark sector consisting of a pure non-abelian gauge theory has no renormalizable interaction with SM particles, and can thereby realise gravitational Dark Matter (DM). Gauge interactions confine at a scale ΛDM giving bound states with typical lifetimes \( \tau \sim {M}_{\mathrm{P}1}^4/{\Lambda}_{\mathrm{DM}}^5 \) that can be DM candidates if ΛDM is below 100 TeV. Furthermore, accidental symmetries of group-theoretical nature produce special gravitationally stable bound states. In the presence of generic Planck-suppressed operators such states become long-lived: SU(N) gauge theories contain bound states with \( \tau \sim {M}_{\mathrm{P}1}^8/{\Lambda}_{\mathrm{DM}}^9 \); even longer lifetimes τ = (MPl/ΛDM)2N−4/ΛDM arise from SO(N) theories with N ≥ 8, and possibly from F4 or E8. We compute their relic abundance generated by gravitational freeze-in and by inflationary fluctuations, finding that they can be viable DM candidates for ΛDM ≳ 1010 GeV.
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Gross, C., Karamitsos, S., Landini, G. et al. Gravitational vector Dark Matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 174 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)174
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