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Composite Heavy Axionlike Dark Matter.

Pierluca Carenza¹, Roman Pasechnik², Zhi-Wei Wang³

¹Stockholm University, The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden.

Physical Review Letters

|July 31, 2025

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We introduce a new type of dark matter candidate: composite axion-like particles (ALPs). These particles have very weak interactions, opening new research areas in cosmology and astrophysics.

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Area of Science:

Cosmology
Particle Physics
Astrophysics

Background:

Dark matter candidates are crucial for understanding the universe's composition.
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates.
Exploring new parameter spaces for ALPs is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel class of dark matter candidates: composite axion-like particles (ALPs).
To explore vast, unexplored regions of the ALP parameter space.
To establish a new theoretical framework for composite ALPs.

Main Methods:

Introducing a simple dark confining gauge theory.
Deriving a composite glueball ALP (GALP) dark matter coupling-mass relation.
Utilizing a heavy fermion portal to suppress GALP-photon coupling radiatively.

Main Results:

A new composite glueball ALP (GALP) dark matter candidate is proposed.
A novel coupling-mass relation for GALP dark matter is established.
Highly suppressed electromagnetic interactions for GALPs are achieved without fine-tuning.

Conclusions:

This work introduces a new avenue for dark matter research with composite ALPs.
The proposed GALP dark matter model is minimal, controlled by three parameters.
This research opens up new possibilities for exploring composite ALPs in multimessenger astrophysics and cosmology.