Photonic portal to the sterile world of cold dark matter

Abstract

We assume that the cold dark matter consists of spin-1/2 and spin-0 particles described by a bispinor field \psi and a scalar field \phi, sterile from all Standard Model charges (in contrast, neutralinos, supersymmetric candidates for cold dark matter, are not sterile from weak Standard Model charges). We propose, however, that such a sterile world can contact with our Standard Model world not only through gravity but also through a portal provided by photons coupled to sterile particles by means of two very weak effective interactions -(f/M^2)\phi F^{\mu\nu}\phi F_{\mu\nu} and -(f'/M^2) (\bar\psi \sigma^{\mu\nu} \psi)\phi F_{\mu\nu}, where M is a very large mass scale and f and f' are dimensionless coupling constants. Thus, in our picture, the electromagnetic field F_{\mu\nu} - as the only Standard Model field - participates in both worlds, providing a nongravitational link between them (other than the popular supersymmetric weak interaction, active in the case of neutralinos). In consequence, there appears a tiny quasi-magnetic correction to the conventional electromagnetic current (described in Appendix A).