scholarly journals Thermal WIMPs and the scale of new physics: global fits of Dirac dark matter effective field theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Athron ◽  
Neal Avis Kozar ◽  
Csaba Balázs ◽  
Ankit Beniwal ◽  
Sanjay Bloor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Dirac Fermion ◽  
Likelihood Functions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection ◽  
Global Fitting

AbstractWe assess the status of a wide class of WIMP dark matter (DM) models in light of the latest experimental results using the global fitting framework . We perform a global analysis of effective field theory (EFT) operators describing the interactions between a gauge-singlet Dirac fermion and the Standard Model quarks, the gluons and the photon. In this bottom-up approach, we simultaneously vary the coefficients of 14 such operators up to dimension 7, along with the DM mass, the scale of new physics and several nuisance parameters. Our likelihood functions include the latest data from Planck, direct and indirect detection experiments, and the LHC. For DM masses below 100 GeV, we find that it is impossible to satisfy all constraints simultaneously while maintaining EFT validity at LHC energies. For new physics scales around 1 TeV, our results are influenced by several small excesses in the LHC data and depend on the prescription that we adopt to ensure EFT validity. Furthermore, we find large regions of viable parameter space where the EFT is valid and the relic density can be reproduced, implying that WIMPs can still account for the DM of the universe while being consistent with the latest data.

scholarly journals Effective field theory analysis of dark matter-standard model interactions with spin one mediators

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiola Fortuna ◽  
Pablo Roig ◽  
José Wudka
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Invisible Decay

Abstract We analyze interactions between dark matter and standard model particles with spin one mediators in an effective field theory framework. In this paper, we are considering dark particles masses in the range from a few MeV to the mass of the Z boson. We use bounds from different experiments: Z invisible decay width, relic density, direct detection experiments, and indirect detection limits from the search of gamma-ray emissions and positron fluxes. We obtain solutions corresponding to operators with antisymmetric tensor mediators that fulfill all those requirements within our approach.

scholarly journals Dark matter candidates in a type-II radiative neutrino mass model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto A. Lineros ◽  
Mathias Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Neutral Particle ◽  
Matter Density ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Mass Model ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection

Abstract We explore the connection between Dark Matter and neutrinos in a model inspired by radiative Type-II seessaw and scotogenic scenarios. In our model, we introduce new electroweakly charged states (scalars and a vector-like fermion) and impose a discrete ℤ2 symmetry. Neutrino masses are generated at the loop level and the lightest ℤ2-odd neutral particle is stable and it can play the role of a Dark Matter candidate. We perform a numerical analysis of the model showing that neutrino masses and flavour structure can be reproduced in addition to the correct dark matter density, with viable DM masses from 700 GeV to 30 TeV. We explore direct and indirect detection signatures and show interesting detection prospects by CTA, Darwin and KM3Net and highlight the complementarity between these observables.

scholarly journals Vector dark matter from split SU(2) gauge bosons

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zexi Hu ◽  
Chengfeng Cai ◽  
Yi-Lei Tang ◽  
Zhao-Huan Yu ◽  
Hong-Hao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Gauge Bosons ◽  
Dark Matter Relic Density ◽  
Matter Model ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection ◽  
Numerous Parameter ◽  
Dark Matter Model

Abstract We propose a vector dark matter model with an exotic dark SU(2) gauge group. Two Higgs triplets are introduced to spontaneously break the symmetry. All of the dark gauge bosons become massive, and the lightest one is a viable vector DM candidate. Its stability is guaranteed by a remaining Z2 symmetry. We study the parameter space constrained by the Higgs measurement data, the dark matter relic density, and direct and indirect detection experiments. We find numerous parameter points satisfying all the constraints, and they could be further tested in future experiments. Similar methodology can be used to construct vector dark matter models from an arbitrary SO(N) gauge group.

scholarly journals Effective theories with dark matter applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhaditya Bhattacharya ◽  
José Wudka
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Effective Theories ◽  
Detailed Nature

Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has achieved enormous success in describing the interactions among the known fundamental constituents of nature, yet it fails to describe phenomena for which there is very strong experimental evidence, such as the existence of dark matter, and which point to the existence of new physics not included in that model; beyond its existence, experimental data, however, have not provided clear indications as to the nature of that new physics. The effective field theory (EFT) approach, the subject of this review, is designed for this type of situations; it provides a consistent and unbiased framework within which to study new physics effects whose existence is expected but whose detailed nature is known very imperfectly. We will provide a description of this approach together with a discussion of some of its basic theoretical aspects. We then consider applications to high-energy phenomenology and conclude with a discussion of the application of EFT techniques to the study of dark matter physics and its possible interactions with the SM. In several of the applications we also briefly discuss specific models that are ultraviolet complete and may realize the effects described by the EFT.

scholarly journals Two natural scenarios for dark matter particles coexisting with supersymmetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (02) ◽  
pp. 1930001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Throm ◽  
Reagan Thornberry ◽  
John Killough ◽  
Brian Sun ◽  
Gentill Abdulla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Higgs Sector ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Experimental Facilities ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection ◽  
Extended Higgs Sector ◽  
Matter Component ◽  
Multicomponent Model

We describe two natural scenarios in which both dark matter, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and a variety of supersymmetric partners should be discovered in the foreseeable future. In the first scenario, the WIMPs are neutralinos, but they are only one component of the dark matter, which is dominantly composed of other relic particles such as axions. (This is the multicomponent model of Baer, Barger, Sengupta and Tata.) In the second scenario, the WIMPs result from an extended Higgs sector and may be the only dark matter component. In either scenario, both the dark matter WIMP and a plethora of other neutral and charged particles await discovery at many experimental facilities. The new particles in the second scenario have far weaker cross-sections for direct and indirect detection via their gauge interactions, which are either momentum-dependent or second-order. However, as we point out here, they should have much stronger interactions via the Higgs. We estimate that their interactions with fermions will then be comparable to (although not equal to) those of neutralinos with a corresponding Higgs interaction. It follows that these newly proposed dark matter particles should be within the reach of emerging and proposed facilities for direct, indirect and collider-based detection.

scholarly journals Dark matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (40) ◽  
pp. 12246-12248 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. James E. Peebles
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Cosmological Tests ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection

The evidence for the dark matter (DM) of the hot big bang cosmology is about as good as it gets in natural science. The exploration of its nature is now led by direct and indirect detection experiments, to be complemented by advances in the full range of cosmological tests, including judicious consideration of the rich phenomenology of galaxies. The results may confirm ideas about DM already under discussion. If we are lucky, we also will be surprised once again.

scholarly journals Dark Matter Indirect Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Stefano Profumo
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Recent Developments

This is an overview of recent developments and future prospects in the search for dark matter and new physics with astronomical and astro-particle techniques.

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