scholarly journals Chiral composite asymmetric dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Ibe ◽  
Shin Kobayashi ◽  
Keiichi Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Coincidence Problem ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Visible Sector ◽  
Dynamical Breaking ◽  
Asymmetric Dark Matter ◽  
The Masses

Abstract The asymmetric dark matter (ADM) scenario solves the baryon-dark matter coincidence problem when the dark matter (DM) mass is of $$ \mathcal{O}(1) $$ O 1 GeV. Composite ADM models based on QCD-like strong dynamics are particularly motivated since the strong dynamics naturally provides the DM mass of $$ \mathcal{O}(1) $$ O 1 GeV and the large annihilation cross-section simultaneously. In those models, the sub-GeV dark photon often plays an essential role in transferring the excessive entropy in the dark sector into the visible sector, i.e., the Standard Model sector. This paper constructs a chiral composite ADM model where the U(1)D gauge symmetry is embedded into the chiral flavor symmetry. Due to the dynamical breaking of the chiral flavor symmetry, the model naturally provides the masses of the dark photon and the dark pions in the sub-GeV range, both of which play crucial roles for a successful ADM model.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark mesons in light of electron recoil excess at XENON1T

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-Min Choi ◽  
Hyun Min Lee ◽  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Density Current ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Color Group ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Relic Density

Abstract We consider a novel mechanism to realize exothermic dark matter with dark mesons in the limit of approximate flavor symmetry in a dark QCD. We introduce a local dark U(1)′ symmetry to communicate between dark mesons and the Standard Model via Z′ portal by partially gauging the dark flavor symmetry with flavor-dependent charges for cancelling chiral anomalies in the dark sector. After the dark local U(1)′ is broken spontaneously by the VEV of a dark Higgs, there appear small mass splittings between dark quarks, consequently, leading to small split masses for dark mesons, required to explain the electron recoil excess in XENON1T by the inelastic scattering between dark mesons and electron. We propose a concrete benchmark model for split dark mesons based on SU(3)L× SU(3)R/SU(3)V flavor symmetry and SU(Nc) color group and show that there exists a parameter space making a better fit to the XENON1T data with two correlated peaks from exothermic processes and satisfying the correct relic density, current experimental and theoretical constraints.

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 Astrophysical aspects of milli-charged dark matter in a Higgs–Stueckelberg model

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (18) ◽  
pp. 1550089 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. dos Santos ◽  
D. Hadjimichef
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Minimal Coupling ◽  
Astrophysical Application ◽  
Gauge Sector ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Vector Bosons ◽  
The Impact

An extension of the Standard Model (SM) is studied, in which two new vector bosons are introduced, a first boson Z' coupled to the SM by the usual minimal coupling, producing an enlarged gauge sector in the SM. The second boson A' field, in the dark sector of the model, remains massless and originates a dark photon γ'. A hybrid mixing scenario is considered based on a combined Higgs and Stueckelberg mechanisms. In a Compton-like process, a photon scattered by a weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) is converted into a dark photon. This process is studied, in an astrophysical application obtaining an estimate of the impact on stellar cooling of white dwarfs and neutron stars.

scholarly journals Dark matter to baryon ratio from scalar triplets decay in type-II seesaw

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimmala Narendra ◽  
Narendra Sahu ◽  
Sujay Shil
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Dirac Fermion ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Coincidence Problem ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
Visible Sector

AbstractWe propose a minimal model for the cosmic coincidence problem $$\Omega _\mathrm{DM}/\Omega _B \sim 5$$ Ω DM / Ω B ∼ 5 and neutrino mass in a type-II seesaw scenario. We extend the standard model of particle physics with a $$\mathrm SU(2)$$ S U ( 2 ) singlet leptonic Dirac fermion $$\chi $$ χ , which represents the candidate of dark matter (DM), and two triplet scalars $$\Delta _{1,2}$$ Δ 1 , 2 with hierarchical masses. In the early Universe, the CP violating out-of-equilibrium decay of lightest $$\Delta $$ Δ generates a net $$B-L$$ B - L asymmetry in the visible sector (comprising of SM fields), where B and L represents the total baryon and lepton number respectively. A part of this asymmetry gets transferred to the dark sector (comprising of DM $$\chi $$ χ ) through a dimension eight operator which conserves $$B-L$$ B - L . Above the electroweak phase transition, the $$B-L$$ B - L asymmetry of the visible sector gets converted to a net B-asymmetry by the $$B+L$$ B + L violating sphalerons, while the $$B-L$$ B - L asymmetry of the dark sector remains untouched which we see today as relics of DM. We show that the observed DM abundance can be explained for a DM mass about 8 GeV. We then introduce an additional singlet scalar field $$\phi $$ ϕ which mixes with the SM-Higgs to annihilate the symmetric component of the DM resonantly which requires the singlet scalar mass to be twice the DM mass, i.e. around 16 GeV, which can be searched at collider experiments. In our model, the active neutrinos also get small masses by the induced vacuum expectation value (vev) of the triplet scalars $$\Delta _{1,2}$$ Δ 1 , 2 . In the later part of the paper we discuss all the constraints on model parameters coming from invisible Higgs decay, Higgs signal strength, DM direct detection and relic density of DM.

scholarly journals New Physics Beryond the SM at BESIII

2019 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 06004
Author(s):  
Minggang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Decay Modes ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Masses

Numerous astrophysical observations strongly suggest the existence of Dark Matter, which provides a hint of dark sector physics. There could exist many dark candidates predicted by theories BSM, such as dark photons and invisible things, that communicate with the Standard Model sector. The masses and decay modes of these particles are expected to be accessible at the BESIII experiment which is the only currently running tau-charm factory with the largest threshold charm samples and some other unique datasets. We have recently performed searches of dark photons and invisible things in several decay modes. Besides, FCNC processes, BNV/LNV processes are also investigated. This talk will summarize the recent results at BESIII on these searches for new physics BSM.

THE FAMILY PROBLEM: EXTENSION OF STANDARD MODEL WITH A LOOSELY-COUPLED SU(3) FAMILY GAUGE THEORY

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
W-Y. PAUCHY HWANG
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Ordinary Matter ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Family Problem ◽  
Visible Matter ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Masses

We all know that in our family of the basic particles we have three generations but still don't know why - the so-called "family problem". On other hand, in view of the masses and oscillations, the neutrinos now present some basic difficulty in the Standard Model. In this note, I propose that on top of the SUc(3) × SU(2) × U(1) standard model there is an SUf(3) extension - a simple SUc(3) × SU(2) × U(1) × SUf(3) extended standard model - neutrino masses are obtained in a "renormalizable" way in the dark sector. On the dark matter side, the family gauge bosons (familons) are massive through the so-called "colored" Higgs mechanism while the remaining Higgs particles are also massive. As the bridge between the dark matter and the ordinary matter, the three neutrinos, the electron-like, muon-like, and tao-like neutrinos, form the basic family triplets. Hopefully all the couplings to the "visible" ordinary matter are through the neutrinos, explaining why dark matter (25 %) is more than visible matter (5 %) in our Universe.

scholarly journals Xenon-1T excess as a possible signal of a sub-GeV hidden sector dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Aboubrahim ◽  
Michael Klasen ◽  
Pran Nath
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Dirac Fermions ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Physics Model

Abstract We present a particle physics model to explain the observed enhancement in the Xenon-1T data at an electron recoil energy of 2.5 keV. The model is based on a U(1) extension of the Standard Model where the dark sector consists of two essentially mass degenerate Dirac fermions in the sub-GeV region with a small mass splitting interacting with a dark photon. The dark photon is unstable and decays before the big bang nucleosynthesis, which leads to the dark matter constituted of two essentially mass degenerate Dirac fermions. The Xenon-1T excess is computed via the inelastic exothermic scattering of the heavier dark fermion from a bound electron in xenon to the lighter dark fermion producing the observed excess events in the recoil electron energy. The model can be tested with further data from Xenon-1T and in future experiments such as SuperCDMS.

scholarly journals Searching for elusive dark sectors with terrestrial and celestial observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Contino ◽  
Kevin Max ◽  
Rashmish K. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Broad Class ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Visible Sector

Abstract We consider the possible existence of a SM-neutral and light dark sector coupled to the visible sector through irrelevant portal interactions. Scenarios of this kind are motivated by dark matter and arise in various extensions of the Standard Model. We characterize the dark dynamics in terms of one ultraviolet scale Λuv, at which the exchange of heavy mediator fields generates the portal operators, and by one infrared scale ΛIR, setting the mass gap. At energies ΛIR « E « Λuv the dark sector behaves like a conformal field theory and its phenomenology can be studied model independently. We derive the constraints set on this scenario by high- and low-energy laboratory experiments and by astrophysical observations. Our results are conservative and serve as a minimum requirement that must be fulfilled by the broad class of models satisfying our assumptions, of which we give several examples. The experimental constraints are derived in a manner consistent with the validity of the effective field theory used to define the portal interactions. We find that high-energy colliders give the strongest bounds and exclude UV scales up to a few TeV, but only in specific ranges of the IR scale. The picture emerging from current searches can be taken as a starting point to design a future experimental strategy with broader sensitivity.

scholarly journals Ultraviolet completion of a composite asymmetric dark matter model with a dark photon portal

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Ibe ◽  
Ayuki Kamada ◽  
Shin Kobayashi ◽  
Takumi Kuwahara ◽  
Wakutaka Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Matter Model ◽  
Asymmetric Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Matter Model

scholarly journals Cosmological signatures of dark sector physics: the evolution of haloes and spin alignment

2020 ◽  
Vol 492 (2) ◽  
pp. 2369-2382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Absem W Jibrail ◽  
Pascal J Elahi ◽  
Geraint F Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Large Scale Structures ◽  
Cosmic Evolution ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Scale Structures ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Matter Energy

ABSTRACT The standard cosmological paradigm currently lacks a detailed account of physics in the dark sector, the dark matter and energy that dominate cosmic evolution. In this paper, we consider the distinguishing factors between three alternative models – warm dark matter, quintessence, and coupled dark matter–energy – and lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) through numerical simulations of cosmological structure formation. Key halo statistics – halo spin/velocity alignment between large-scale structure and neighbouring haloes, halo formation time, and migration – were compared across cosmologies within the redshift range 0 ≤ z ≤ 2.98. We found the alignment of halo motion and spin to large-scale structures and neighbouring haloes to be similar in all cosmologies for a range of redshifts. The search was extended to low-density regions, avoiding non-linear disturbances of halo spins, yet very similar alignment trends were found between cosmologies, which are difficult to characterize and use as a probe of cosmology. We found that haloes in quintessence cosmologies form earlier than their ΛCDM counterparts. Relating this to the fact that such haloes originate in high-density regions, such findings could hold clues to distinguishing factors for the quintessence cosmology from the standard model. However, in general, halo statistics are not an accurate probe of the dark sector physics.

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