Preprint Outlines Vector Dark Matter Model with Axial Couplings from Gravitational QFT
The preprint proposes a vector dark matter candidate arising from gravitational quantum field theory and derives its experimental signatures. Constraints from current data leave viable regions accessible to next-generation searches. Evidence consists solely of model construction and parameter mapping against published limits, not new measurements.
The work begins from the General Standard Model embedded in gravitational quantum field theory, isolates the vector field as a dark matter candidate, and builds the corresponding low-energy Lagrangian with axial-vector interactions. Parameter space is then confronted with existing direct detection, indirect detection, and collider limits, yielding excluded regions and viable windows for future probes. This remains a purely theoretical construction with no new observational data; the authors rely on effective field theory matching and standard relic density calculations rather than lattice or non-perturbative methods. The approach reproduces known vector dark matter phenomenology while adding gravitational QFT motivation, yet the same constraints could be applied to any axial-vector model without the gravitational embedding. Future multi-ton direct detection runs and high-luminosity LHC searches will test the remaining parameter space, but confirmation would still require an independent signal in at least two channels.
LZ collaboration: null result in 2028-2030 run will exclude axial couplings above 3e-4 for 100 GeV vector DM at 90% CL.
Sources (2)
- [1]Primary Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25069)
- [2]Supporting Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03348)