scholarly journals Planck scale boundary conditions in the standard model with singlet scalar dark matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoyuki Haba ◽  
Kunio Kaneta ◽  
Ryo Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
The Standard Model

scholarly journals Renormalization group equations of Higgs-R2 inflation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohei Ema ◽  
Kyohei Mukaida ◽  
Jorinde van de Vis
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Einstein Frame ◽  
Ricci Scalar ◽  
Minimal Coupling ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract We derive one- and two-loop renormalization group equations (RGEs) of Higgs-R2 inflation. This model has a non-minimal coupling between the Higgs and the Ricci scalar and a Ricci scalar squared term on top of the standard model. The RGEs derived in this paper are valid as long as the energy scale of interest (in the Einstein frame) is below the Planck scale. We also discuss implications to the inflationary predictions and the electroweak vacuum metastability.

scholarly journals Planck Neutrinos as Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Dmitri L. Khokhlov
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
The Standard Model

AbstractThe studied conjecture is that ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are hypothetical Planck neutrinos arising in the decay of the protons falling onto the gravastar. The proton is assumed to decay at the Planck scale into positron and four Planck neutrinos. The supermassive black holes inside active galactic nuclei, while interpreted as gravastars, are considered as UHECR sources. The scattering of the Planck neutrinos by the proton at the Planck scale is considered. The Planck neutrinos contribution to the CR events may explain the CR spectrum from 5 × 1018 eV to 1020 eV. The muon number in the Planck neutrinos-initiated shower is estimated to be larger by a factor of 3/2 in comparison with the standard model that is consistent with the observational data.

scholarly journals Search for dark matter in association with an energetic photon in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Aad ◽  
◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
D. C. Abbott ◽  
A. Abed Abud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Transverse Momentum ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Missing Transverse Momentum ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract A search for dark matter is conducted in final states containing a photon and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV. The data, collected during 2015–2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. No deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model are observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits between 2.45 fb and 0.5 fb are set on the visible cross section for contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model, in different ranges of the missing transverse momentum. The results are interpreted as 95% confidence-level limits in models where weakly interacting dark-matter candidates are pair-produced via an s-channel axial-vector or vector mediator. Dark-matter candidates with masses up to 415 (580) GeV are excluded for axial-vector (vector) mediators, while the maximum excluded mass of the mediator is 1460 (1470) GeV. In addition, the results are expressed in terms of 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of a model with an axion-like particle produced in association with a photon, and are used to constrain the coupling gaZγ of an axion-like particle to the electroweak gauge bosons.

scholarly journals Dark matter spectra from the electroweak to the Planck scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian W. Bauer ◽  
Nicholas L. Rodd ◽  
Bryan R. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Decay Spectrum ◽  
Crucial Ingredient

Abstract We compute the decay spectrum for dark matter (DM) with masses above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, all the way to the Planck scale. For an arbitrary hard process involving a decay to the unbroken standard model, we determine the prompt distribution of stable states including photons, neutrinos, positrons, and antiprotons. These spectra are a crucial ingredient in the search for DM via indirect detection at the highest energies as being probed in current and upcoming experiments including IceCube, HAWC, CTA, and LHAASO. Our approach improves considerably on existing methods, for instance, we include all relevant electroweak interactions.

scholarly journals Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter: Alternative Production Mechanisms in the Early Universe

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Daniel Boyanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Quantum Kinetic Equation ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Production Mechanisms ◽  
Freeze Out

We study various production mechanisms of sterile neutrinos in the early universe beyond and within the standard model. We obtain the quantum kinetic equations for production and the distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos at freeze-out, from which we obtain free streaming lengths, equations of state and coarse grained phase space densities. In a simple extension beyond the standard model, in which neutrinos are Yukawa coupled to a Higgs-like scalar, we derive and solve the quantum kinetic equation for sterile production and analyze the freeze-out conditions and clustering properties of this dark matter constituent. We argue that in the mass basis, standard model processes that produce active neutrinos also yield sterile-like neutrinos, leading to various possible production channels. Hence, the final distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos is a result of the various kinematically allowed production processes in the early universe. As an explicit example, we consider production of light sterile neutrinos from pion decay after the QCD phase transition, obtaining the quantum kinetic equation and the distribution function at freeze-out. A sterile-like neutrino with a mass in the keV range produced by this process is a suitable warm dark matter candidate with a free-streaming length of the order of few kpc consistent with cores in dwarf galaxies.

Extension of Standard Model in multi-spinor field formalism — Visible and dark sectors

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (18) ◽  
pp. 1630027
Author(s):  
Ikuo S. Sogami
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Quadratic Interaction ◽  
Inflationary Phase ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Visible Sector ◽  
Field Formalism ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Higgs Fields

With multi-spinor fields which behave as triple-tensor products of the Dirac spinors, the Standard Model is extended so as to embrace three families of ordinary quarks and leptons in the visible sector and an additional family of exotic quarks and leptons in the dark sector of our Universe. Apart from the gauge and Higgs fields of the Standard Model symmetry G, new gauge and Higgs fields of a symmetry isomorphic to G are postulated to exist in the dark sector. It is the bi-quadratic interaction between visible and dark Higgs fields that opens a main portal to the dark sector. Breakdowns of the visible and dark electroweak symmetries result in the Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV and a new boson which can be related to the diphoton excess around 750 GeV. Subsequent to a common inflationary phase and a reheating period, the visible and dark sectors follow weakly-interacting paths of thermal histories. We propose scenarios for dark matter in which no dark nuclear reaction takes place. A candidate for the main component of the dark matter is a stable dark hadron with spin 3/2, and the upper limit of its mass is estimated to be 15.1 GeV/c2.

scholarly journals DARK MATTER, AND ITS DARKNESS

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2267-2278 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. V. AHLUWALIA-KHALILOVA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Model Material ◽  
Representation Space ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
General Relativistic ◽  
Relativistic Description ◽  
Friedmann Robertson Walker

Assuming the validity of the general relativistic description of gravitation on astrophysical and cosmological length scales, we analytically infer that the Friedmann–Robertson–Walker cosmology with Einsteinian cosmological constant, and a vanishing spatial curvature constant, unambiguously requires a significant amount of dark matter. This requirement is consistent with other indications for dark matter. The same space–time symmetries that underlie the freely falling frames of Einsteinian gravity also provide symmetries which, for the spin one half representation space, furnish a novel construct that carries extremely limited interactions with respect to the terrestrial detectors made of the standard model material. Both the "luminous" and "dark" matter turn out to be residents of the same representation space but they derive their respective "luminosity" and "darkness" from either belonging to the sector with (CPT)2 = +𝟙, or to the sector with (CPT)2 = -𝟙.

scholarly journals Weak scale from Planck scale: Mass scale generation in a classically conformal two-scalar system

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junichi Haruna ◽  
Hikaru Kawai
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Field ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Vacuum Expectation ◽  
Vacuum Expectation Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Weak Scale ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The One

Abstract In the standard model, the weak scale is the only parameter with mass dimensions. This means that the standard model itself cannot explain the origin of the weak scale. On the other hand, from the results of recent accelerator experiments, except for some small corrections, the standard model has increased the possibility of being an effective theory up to the Planck scale. From these facts, it is naturally inferred that the weak scale is determined by some dynamics from the Planck scale. In order to answer this question, we rely on the multiple point criticality principle as a clue and consider the classically conformal $\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant two-scalar model as a minimal model in which the weak scale is generated dynamically from the Planck scale. This model contains only two real scalar fields and does not contain any fermions or gauge fields. In this model, due to a Coleman–Weinberg-like mechanism, the one-scalar field spontaneously breaks the $ \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry with a vacuum expectation value connected with the cutoff momentum. We investigate this using the one-loop effective potential, renormalization group and large-$N$ limit. We also investigate whether it is possible to reproduce the mass term and vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field by coupling this model with the standard model in the Higgs portal framework. In this case, the one-scalar field that does not break $\mathbb{Z}_2$ can be a candidate for dark matter and have a mass of about several TeV in appropriate parameters. On the other hand, the other scalar field breaks $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and has a mass of several tens of GeV. These results will be verifiable in near-future experiments.

scholarly journals Resurrecting low-mass axion dark matter via a dynamical QCD scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Heurtier ◽  
Fei Huang ◽  
Tim M.P. Tait
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Axion Field ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Higher Temperature ◽  
Relic Abundance ◽  
Dependent Mass

Abstract In the framework where the strong coupling is dynamical, the QCD sector may confine at a much higher temperature than it would in the Standard Model, and the temperature-dependent mass of the QCD axion evolves in a non-trivial way. We find that, depending on the evolution of ΛQCD, the axion field may undergo multiple distinct phases of damping and oscillation leading generically to a suppression of its relic abundance. Such a suppression could therefore open up a wide range of parameter space, resurrecting in particular axion dark-matter models with a large Peccei-Quinn scale fa ≫ 1012 GeV, i.e., with a lighter mass than the standard QCD axion.

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.

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