Well-tempered n-plet dark matter

作者:Bharucha A; Brummer F; Ruffault R
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017, 2017(9): 160.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP09(2017)160

摘要

We study simple effective models of fermionic WIMP dark matter, where the dark matter candidate is a mixture of a Standard Model singlet and an n-plet of SU2(L) with n >= 3, stabilized by a discrete symmetry. The dark matter mass is assumed to be around the electroweak scale, and the mixing is generated by higher-dimensional operators, with a cutoff scale greater than or similar to TeV. For appropriate values of the mass parameters and the mixing we find that the observed dark matter relic density can be generated by coannihilation. Direct detection experiments have already excluded large parts of the parameter space, and the next-generation experiments will further constrain these models.

  • 出版日期2017-9-29