Dark mesons as self-interacting dark matter

Abstract

We review the current status of model building for light dark matter in theories of QCD-like gauge groups in the hidden sector. The focus is upon the dark mesons with the $SU(3{)}_V$ flavor symmetry in scenarios of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles. We show the production mechanism and the kinetic equilibrium condition for dark mesons and discuss a unitarization of dark chiral perturbation theory with vector mesons in the scheme of hidden gauge symmetry.

Comments: 9 pages, no figures. Prepared for the European Physical Journal Special Topics, Review of Fundamental Composite Dynamics, v2: discussion expanded and typos corrected