scholarly journals Composite dark matter from strongly-interacting chiral dynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Contino ◽  
Alessandro Podo ◽  
Filippo Revello
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Goldstone Bosons ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New States ◽  
Dark Color

Abstract A class of chiral gauge theories is studied with accidentally-stable pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons playing the role of dark matter (DM). The gauge group contains a vector-like dark color factor that confines at energies larger than the electroweak scale, and a U(1)D factor that remains weakly coupled and is spontaneously broken. All new scales are generated dynamically, including the DM mass, and the IR dynamics is fully calculable. We analyze minimal models of this kind with dark fermions transforming as non-trivial vector-like representations of the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. In realistic models, the DM candidate is a SM singlet and comes along with charged partners that can be discovered at high-energy colliders. The phenomenology of the lowest-lying new states is thus characterized by correlated predictions for astrophysical observations and laboratory experiments.

scholarly journals GAUGING THE SHADOW SECTOR WITH SO(3)

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 1221-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. TUPPER ◽  
R. J. LINDEBAUM ◽  
R. D. VIOLLIER
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrino ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Model Based ◽  
The Standard Model

We examine the phenomenology of a low-energy extension of the Standard Model, based on the gauge group SU (3) ⊗ SU (2) ⊗ U (1)⊗ SO (3), with SO(3) operating in the shadow sector. This model offers vacuum νe → νs and νμ → ντ oscillations as the solution of the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems, and it provides a neutral heavy shadow lepton X that takes the role of a cold dark matter particle.

scholarly journals Majorana fermion dark matter in minimally extended left-right symmetric model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Neves ◽  
Nobuchika Okada ◽  
Satomi Okada
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Majorana Fermion ◽  
Symmetric Model ◽  
Minimal Extension ◽  
Narrow Resonance ◽  
Parameter Region ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract We present a minimal extension of the left-right symmetric model based on the gauge group SU(3)c× SU(2)L× SU(2)R× U(1)B−L× U(1)X, in which a vector-like fermion pair (ζL and ζR) charged under the U(1)B−L× U(1)X symmetry is introduced. Associated with the symmetry breaking of the gauge group SU(2)R× U(1)B−L× U(1)X down to the Standard Model (SM) hypercharge U(1)Y, Majorana masses for ζL,R are generated and the lightest mass eigenstate plays a role of the dark matter (DM) in our universe by its communication with the SM particles through a new neutral gauge boson “X”. We consider various phenomenological constraints of this DM scenario, such as the observed DM relic density, the LHC Run-2 constraints from the search for a narrow resonance, and the perturbativity of the gauge couplings below the Planck scale. Combining all constraints, we identify the allowed parameter region which turns out to be very narrow. A significant portion of the currently allowed parameter region will be tested by the High-Luminosity LHC experiments.

scholarly journals Strongly Interacting Light Dark Matter

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Bruggisser ◽  
Francesco Riva ◽  
Alfredo Urbano
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Small Class ◽  
Missing Energy ◽  
Small Energy ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Novel Target ◽  
Relic Abundance

We discuss a class of Dark Matter (DM) models that, although inherently strongly coupled, appear weakly coupled at small-energy and fulfill the WIMP miracle, generating a sizable relic abundance through the standard freeze-out mechanism. Such models are based on approximate global symmetries that forbid relevant interactions; fundamental principles, like unitarity, restrict these symmetries to a small class, in such a way that the leading interactions between DM and the Standard Model are captured by effective operators up to dimension-8. The underlying strong coupling implies that these interactions become much larger at high-energy and represent an interesting novel target for LHC missing-energy searches.

scholarly journals A global view of the off-shell Higgs portal

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Ruhdorfer ◽  
Ennio Salvioni ◽  
Andreas Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Goldstone Boson ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Portal ◽  
First Time

We study for the first time the collider reach on the derivative Higgs portal, the leading effective interaction that couples a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) scalar Dark Matter to the Standard Model. We focus on Dark Matter pair production through an off-shell Higgs boson, which is analyzed in the vector boson fusion channel. A variety of future high-energy lepton colliders as well as hadron colliders are considered, including CLIC, a muon collider, the High-Luminosity and High-Energy versions of the LHC, and FCC-hh. Implications on the parameter space of pNGB Dark Matter are discussed. In addition, we give improved and extended results for the collider reach on the marginal Higgs portal, under the assumption that the new scalars escape the detector, as motivated by a variety of beyond the Standard Model scenarios.

scholarly journals ELECTROWEAK UNIFICATION OF QUARKS AND LEPTONS IN A GAUGE GROUP SUC(3) × SU(4) × UX(1)

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (21) ◽  
pp. 1250117 ◽  
Author(s):  
FAYYAZUDDIN
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Lower Limit ◽  
Z Boson ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Vector Bosons ◽  
The Universe

A model for electroweak unification of quarks and leptons, in a gauge group SUC(3) × SU(4) × UX(1) is constructed. The model requires, three generations of quarks and leptons which are replicas (mirror) of the standard quarks and leptons. The gauge group SU(4) × UX(1) is broken in such a way so as to reproduce standard model and to generate heavy masses for the vector bosons [Formula: see text], the leptoquarks and mirror fermions. It is shown lower limit on mass scale of mirror fermions is [Formula: see text], E- being the lightest mirror fermion coupled to Z boson. As the universe expands, the heavy matter is decoupled at an early stage of expansion and may be a source of dark matter. Leptoquarks in the model connect the standard model and mirror fermions. Baryon genesis in our universe implies antibaryon genesis in mirror universe.

scholarly journals Higgs Portal Inflation with Fermionic Dark Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Aditya Aravind ◽  
Minglei Xiao ◽  
Jiang-Hao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Potential ◽  
Scalar Fields ◽  
Fermionic Field ◽  
Planck Data ◽  
Slow Roll ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Higgs Portal

We discuss the inflationary model presented in [1], involving a gauge singlet scalar field and fermionic dark matter added to the standard model. Either the Higgs or the singlet scalar could play the role of the inflaton, and slow roll is realized through its non-minimal coupling to gravity. The effective scalar potential is stabilized by the mixing between the scalars as well as the coupling with the fermionic field. Mixing of the two scalars also provides a portal to dark matter. Constraints on the model come from perturbativity and stability, collider searches and dark matter constraints and impose a constraining relationship on the masses of dark matter and scalar fields. Inflationary predictions are generically consistent with current Planck data.

scholarly journals Electroweak symmetry non-restoration from dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Matsedonskyi ◽  
James Unwin ◽  
Qingyun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Mass ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New States ◽  
Potential Remedy

Abstract Restoration of the electroweak symmetry at temperatures around the Higgs mass is linked to tight phenomenological constraints on many baryogenesis scenarios. A potential remedy can be found in mechanisms of electroweak symmetry non-restoration (SNR), in which symmetry breaking is extended to higher temperatures due to new states with couplings to the Standard Model. Here we show that, in the presence of a second Higgs doublet, SNR can be realized with only a handful of new fermions which can be identified as viable dark matter candidates consistent with all current observational constraints. The competing requirements on this class of models allow for SNR at temperatures up to ∼TeV, and imply the presence of sub-TeV new physics with sizable interactions with the Standard Model. As a result this scenario is highly testable with signals in reach of next-generation collider and dark matter direct detection experiments.

scholarly journals Heavy right-handed neutrino dark matter in left–right models

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1740007 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Bhupal Dev ◽  
Rabindra N. Mohapatra ◽  
Yongchao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Seesaw Mechanism ◽  
Leptonic Sector ◽  
Active Neutrino ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Universe

We show that in a class of non-supersymmetric left–right extensions of the Standard Model (SM), the lightest right-handed neutrino (RHN) can play the role of thermal Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe for a wide mass range from TeV to PeV. Our model is based on the gauge group [Formula: see text] in which a heavy copy of the SM fermions is introduced and the stability of the RHN DM is guaranteed by an automatic [Formula: see text] symmetry present in the leptonic sector. In such models, the active neutrino masses are obtained via the type-II seesaw mechanism. We find a lower bound on the RHN DM mass of order TeV from relic density constraints, as well as a unitarity upper bound in the multi-TeV to PeV scale, depending on the entropy dilution factor. The RHN DM could be made long-lived by soft-breaking of the [Formula: see text] symmetry and provides a concrete example of decaying DM interpretation of the PeV neutrinos observed at IceCube.

scholarly journals Dark matter and baryogenesis from non-Abelian gauged lepton number

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (19) ◽  
pp. 1730018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Fornal
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Symmetry ◽  
Simple Model ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Right ◽  
Standard Model Gauge Group

A simple model is constructed based on the gauge symmetry [Formula: see text], with only the leptons transforming nontrivially under [Formula: see text]. The extended symmetry is broken down to the Standard Model gauge group at TeV-scale energies. We show that this model provides a mechanism for baryogenesis via leptogenesis in which the lepton number asymmetry is generated by [Formula: see text] instantons. The theory also contains a dark matter candidate — the [Formula: see text] partner of the right-handed neutrino.

scholarly journals On the τ flavor of the cosmic neutrino flux

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasaman Farzan
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Cosmic Neutrino ◽  
Standard Picture

Abstract Observation of high energy cosmic neutrinos by ICECUBE has ushered in a new era in exploring both cosmos and new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In the standard picture, although mostly νμ and νe are produced in the source, oscillation will produce ντen route. Certain beyond SM scenarios, like interaction with ultralight DM can alter this picture. Thus, the flavor composition of the cosmic neutrino flux can open up the possibility of exploring certain beyond the SM scenarios that are inaccessible otherwise. We show that the τ flavor holds a special place among the neutrino flavors in elucidating new physics. Interpreting the two anomalous events observed by ANITA as ντ events makes the tau flavor even more intriguing. We study how the detection of the two tau events by ICECUBE constrains the interaction of the neutrinos with ultralight dark matter and discuss the implications of this interaction for even higher energy cosmic neutrinos detectable by future radio telescopes such as ARA, ARIANNA and GRAND. We also revisit the 3 + 1 neutrino scheme as a solution to the two anomalous ANITA events and clarify a misconception that exists in the literature about the evolution of high energy neutrinos in matter within the 3 + 1 scheme with a possibility of scattering off nuclei. We show that the existing bounds on the flux of ντ with energy of EeV rules out this solution for the ANITA events. We show that the 3 + 1 solution can be saved from both this bound and from the bound on the extra relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe by turning on the interaction of neutrinos with ultralight dark matter.

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