Clockworking FIMPs Goudelis, Andreas; Mohan, Kirtimaan A.; Sengupta, Dipan
The journal of high energy physics,
10/2018, Volume:
2018, Issue:
10
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
A
bstract
We study freeze-in dark matter production in models that rely on the Clock-work mechanism to suppress the dark matter couplings to the visible sector. We construct viable scalar and ...fermionic dark matter models within this “Clockwork FIMP” scenario, with several subtleties that need to be taken into account revealed in the model-building process. We also provide analytic, semi-analytic and numerical results for the diagonalization of Clockwork-type mass matrices and briefly discuss the LHC phenomenology of the corresponding scenarios.
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bstract
The existence of a dark matter model with a rich dark sector could be the reason why WIMP dark matter has evaded its detection so far. For instance, colored coannihilation naturally leads ...to the prediction of heavier dark matter masses. Importantly, in such a scenario the Sommerfeld effect and bound state formation must be considered in order to accurately predict the relic abundance. Based on the example of the currently widely studied
t
-channel simplified model with a colored mediator, we demonstrate the importance of considering these non-perturbative effects for correctly inferring the viable model parameters. We emphasize that a flat correction factor on the relic abundance is not sufficient in this context. Moreover, we find that parameter space thought to be excluded by direct detection experiments and LHC searches remains still viable. Additionally, we illustrate that long-lived particle searches and bound-state searches at the LHC can play a crucial role in probing such a model. We demonstrate how future direct detection experiments will be able to close almost all of the remaining window for freeze-out production, making it a highly testable scenario.
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bstract
We revisit the constraints on the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), from charge and color breaking minima in the light of information on the Higgs from ...the LHC so far. We study the behavior of the scalar potential keeping two light sfermion fields along with the Higgs in the pMSSM framework and analyze the stability of the vacuum. We find that for lightest stops ≲ 1 TeV and small
μ
≲ 500 GeV, the absolute stability of the potential can be attained only for
. The bounds become stronger for larger values of the
μ
parameter. Note that this is approximately the value of
X
t which maximizes the Higgs mass. Our bounds on the low scale MSSM parameters are more stringent than those reported earlier in literature. We reanalyze the stau sector as well, keeping both staus. We study the connections between the observed Higgs rates and vacuum (meta)stability. We show how a precision study of the ratio of signal strengths, (
μ
γγ
/μ
ZZ
) can shed further light.
We consider the (2 + 1) flavor Polyakov quark-meson model and study the effect of including fermion vacuum fluctuations on the thermodynamics and phase diagram. The resulting model predictions are ...compared to the recent QCD lattice simulations by the HotQCD and Wuppertal-Budapest collaborations. The variation of the thermodynamic quantities across the phase transition region becomes smoother. This results in better agreement with the lattice data. Depending on the value of the mass of the sigma meson, including the vacuum term results in either pushing the critical end point into higher values of the chemical potential or excluding the possibility of a critical end point altogether.
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bstract
An interesting class of models posits that the dark matter is a Majorana fermion which interacts with a quark together with a colored scalar mediator. Such a theory can be tested in direct ...detection experiments, through dark matter scattering with heavy nuclei, and at the LHC, via jets and missing energy signatures. Motivated by the fact that such theories have spin-independent interactions that vanish at tree level, we examine them at one loop (along with RGE improvement to resum large logs), and find that despite its occurrence at a higher order of perturbation theory, the spin-independent scattering searches typically impose the strongest constraints on the model parameter space. We further analyze the corresponding LHC constraints at one loop and find that it is important to take them into account when interpreting the implications of searches for jets plus missing momentum on this class of models, thus providing the corresponding complementary information for this class of models.
We present the results of the first complete calculation of the tree-level 2 → 2 high-energy scattering amplitudes of the longitudinal modes of massive spin-2 Kaluza-Klein (KK) states, both in the ...case where the internal space is a torus and in the Randall-Sundrum model where the internal space has constant negative curvature. While individual contributions to this amplitude grow as O(s5), we demonstrate explicitly that intricate cancellations occur between different contributions, reducing the growth to O(s), a slower rate of growth than previously argued in the literature. These cancellations require subtle relationships between the masses of the Kaluza-Klein states and their interactions, and reflect the underlying higher-dimensional diffeomorphism invariance. Our results provide fresh perspective on the range of validity of (effective) field theories involving massive spin-2 KK particles, with significant implications for the theory and phenomenology of these states.
Discrepancy between the measured value and the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is a possible hint for new physics. AZ′ particle with μτ flavor violating couplings can ...give a large contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment due to the τ mass enhancement at the one-loop level, and is known to explain the above discrepancy. In this paper, we study the potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for detecting such a Z ′ boson via the pp → μ−μ−τ+τ+ process. Earlier studies in the literature only considered the production channel with quark initial states (pp → qq→μ−μ−τ+τ+). Here, we show that the photon initiated process, pp → γγ → μ−μ−τ+τ+, is in fact the dominant production mode, for a heavy Z ′ boson of mass greater than a few hundred GeV. The potential of the high luminosity (HL) LHC is also considered.
It has recently been shown explicitly that the high-energy scattering amplitude of the longitudinal modes of massive spin-2 Kaluza-Klein states in compactified five-dimensional gravity, which would ...naively grow like O(s5), grow only like O(s). Since the individual contributions to these amplitudes do grow like O(s5), the required cancellations between these individual contributions result from intricate relationships between the masses of these states and their couplings. Here we report the explicit form of these sum-rule relationships which ensure the necessary cancellations for elastic scattering of spin-2 Kaluza-Klein states in a Randall-Sundrum model. We consider an anti–de Sitter space of arbitrary curvature, including the special case of a toroidal compactification in which the curvature vanishes. The sum rules demonstrate that the cancellations at O(s5) and O(s4) are generic for a compact extra dimension and arise from the Sturm-Liouville structure of the eigenmode system in the internal space. Separately, the sum rules at O(s3) and O(s2) illustrate the essential role of the radion mode of the extradimensional metric, which is the dynamical mode related to the size of the internal space.
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