Weakly interacting dark matter from the minimal walking technicolor

Kainulainen, Kimmo; Virkajärvi, Jussi; Tuominen, Kimmo

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/029

Title: Weakly interacting dark matter from the minimal walking technicolor

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We study a weakly interacting dark matter particle motivated by minimal walking technicolor theories. Our WIMP is a mixture of a sterile state and a state with the charges of a standard model fourth family neutrino. We show that the model can give the right amount of dark matter over a range of the WIMP mass and mixing angle. We compute bounds on the model parameters from the current accelerator data including the oblique corrections to the precision electroweak parameters, as well as from cryogenic experiments, Super-Kamiokande and from the IceCube experiment. We show that consistent dark matter solutions exist which satisfy all current constraints. However, almost the entire parameter range of the model lies within the the combined reach of the next generation experiments.

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Kainulainen, Kimmo; Virkajärvi, Jussi ^[1]; Tuominen, Kimmo ^[2]

Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O.Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 Jyväskylä (Finland)
CP3-Origins, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M (Denmark)

Publication Date:: Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2010

OSTI Identifier:: 22272995

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2010; Journal Issue: 02; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ACCURACY; ASTROPHYSICS; CORRECTIONS; COSMOLOGY; LIMITING VALUES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; REST MASS; STANDARD MODEL; WEINBERG ANGLE; WIMPS

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                    Kainulainen, Kimmo, Virkajärvi, Jussi, and Tuominen, Kimmo. Weakly interacting dark matter from the minimal walking technicolor.  United States: N. p., 2010. 
        Web.  doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/029.

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                    Kainulainen, Kimmo, Virkajärvi, Jussi, & Tuominen, Kimmo. Weakly interacting dark matter from the minimal walking technicolor.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/029

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                    Kainulainen, Kimmo, Virkajärvi, Jussi, and Tuominen, Kimmo. 2010.  
        "Weakly interacting dark matter from the minimal walking technicolor".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/029.

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  abstractNote = {We study a weakly interacting dark matter particle motivated by minimal walking technicolor theories. Our WIMP is a mixture of a sterile state and a state with the charges of a standard model fourth family neutrino. We show that the model can give the right amount of dark matter over a range of the WIMP mass and mixing angle. We compute bounds on the model parameters from the current accelerator data including the oblique corrections to the precision electroweak parameters, as well as from cryogenic experiments, Super-Kamiokande and from the IceCube experiment. We show that consistent dark matter solutions exist which satisfy all current constraints. However, almost the entire parameter range of the model lies within the the combined reach of the next generation experiments.},

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  year         = {Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2010},

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