Millicharge or decay: a critical take on Minimal Dark Matter

Nobile, Eugenio Del; Nardecchia, Marco; Panci, Paolo

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/048

Title: Millicharge or decay: a critical take on Minimal Dark Matter

Journal Article · Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/048· OSTI ID:1434597

Nobile, Eugenio Del ^[1]; Nardecchia, Marco ^[2]; Panci, Paolo ^[3]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy; Università di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). DAMTP
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France). Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) is a theoretical framework highly appreciated for its minimality and yet its predictivity. Of the two only viable candidates singled out in the original analysis, the scalar eptaplet has been found to decay too quickly to be around today, while the fermionic quintuplet is now being probed by indirect Dark Matter (DM) searches. It is therefore timely to critically review the MDM paradigm, possibly pointing out generalizations of this framework. We propose and explore two distinct directions. One is to abandon the assumption of DM electric neutrality in favor of absolutely stable, millicharged DM candidates which are part of SU(2)L multiplets with integer isospin. Another possibility is to lower the cutoff of the model, which was originally fixed at the Planck scale, to allow for DM decays. We find new viable MDM candidates and study their phenomenology in detail.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

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OSTI ID:: 1434597

Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 04; ISSN 1475-7516

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