WIMPs at high energy muon colliders
The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) paradigm is one of the most compelling scenarios for particle dark matter (DM). We show in this paper that a high energy muon collider can make decisive statements about the WIMP DM, and this should serve as one of its main physics driver cases. We demonstrate this by employing the DM as the lightest member of an electroweak (EW) multiplet, which is a simple, yet one of the most challenging WIMP scenarios given its minimal collider signature and high thermal target mass scale of 1 TeV–23 TeV. Here, we perform a first study of the reach of high energy muon colliders, focusing on the simple, inclusive and conservative signals with large missing mass, through the mono-photon, VBF di-muon and a novel mono-muon channel. Using these inclusive signals, it is possible to cover the thermal targets of doublet and triplet with a 10 TeV muon collider. Higher energies, 14 TeV–75 TeV, would ensure a 5σ reach above the thermal targets for the higher EW multiplets. We also estimate the reach of a search for disappearing tracks, demonstrating the potential significant enhancement of the sensitivity.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER40896; de-sc0013642; SC0009924; SC0013642; PHY-1620074; PHY-1914480; PHY-1914731; PHY-1915147
- OSTI ID:
- 1774673
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1735350; OSTI ID: 1822819
- Report Number(s):
- PITT-PACC-2009; PRVDAQ; 075004
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 103 Journal Issue: 7; ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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