Can WIMP dark matter overcome the nightmare scenario?

Journal Article · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.055026· OSTI ID:21421077

Kanemura, Shinya; Nabeshima, Takehiro ^[1]; Matsumoto, Shigeki; Okada, Nobuchika ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555 (Japan)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 (United States)

Even if new physics beyond the standard model indeed exists, the energy scale of new physics might be beyond the reach at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the LHC could find only the Higgs boson but nothing else. This is the so-called ''nightmare scenario.'' On the other hand, the existence of the dark matter has been established from various observations. One of the promising candidates for thermal relic dark matter is a stable and electric charge-neutral weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) with mass below the TeV scale. In the nightmare scenario, we introduce a WIMP dark matter singlet under the standard model gauge group, which only couples to the Higgs doublet at the lowest order, and investigate the possibility that such WIMP dark matter can be a clue to overcome the nightmare scenario via various phenomenological tests such as the dark matter relic abundance, the direct detection experiments for the dark matter particle, and the production of the dark matter particle at the LHC.

• OSTI ID: 21421077
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.055026; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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