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Title: Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries

Abstract

We investigate the phenomenology of flavored dark matter (DM). DM stability is guaranteed by an accidental Z3 symmetry, a subgroup of the standard model (SM) flavor group that is not broken by the SM Yukawa interactions. We consider an explicit realization where the quark part of the SM flavor group is fully gauged. If the dominant interactions between DM and visible sector are through flavor gauge bosons, as we show for Dirac fermion flavored DM, then the DM mass is bounded between roughly 0.5 TeV and 5 TeV if the DM multiplet mass is split only radiatively. In general, however, no such relation exists. We demonstrate this using scalar flavored DM where the main interaction with the SM is through the Higgs portal. For both cases we derive constraints from flavor, cosmology, direct and indirect DM detection, and collider searches.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]
  1. Univ. of Cinicinnati, Cincinnati, OH (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
  3. Jozef Stefan Inst. (IJS), Ljubljana (Slovenia); Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia); CERN TH-PH Division, Meyrin (Switzerland)
  4. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
  5. Univ. of Cinicinnati, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1212723
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-137-T; CERN-PH-TH-2015-076; ZU-TH-08-15
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1505.03862
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; gauge symmetry; quark masses and SM parameters

Citation Formats

Bishara, Fady, Greljo, Admir, Kamenik, Jernej F., Stamou, Emmanuel, and Zupan, Jure. Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2015)130.
Bishara, Fady, Greljo, Admir, Kamenik, Jernej F., Stamou, Emmanuel, & Zupan, Jure. Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)130
Bishara, Fady, Greljo, Admir, Kamenik, Jernej F., Stamou, Emmanuel, and Zupan, Jure. Mon . "Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)130. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1212723.
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abstractNote = {We investigate the phenomenology of flavored dark matter (DM). DM stability is guaranteed by an accidental Z3 symmetry, a subgroup of the standard model (SM) flavor group that is not broken by the SM Yukawa interactions. We consider an explicit realization where the quark part of the SM flavor group is fully gauged. If the dominant interactions between DM and visible sector are through flavor gauge bosons, as we show for Dirac fermion flavored DM, then the DM mass is bounded between roughly 0.5 TeV and 5 TeV if the DM multiplet mass is split only radiatively. In general, however, no such relation exists. We demonstrate this using scalar flavored DM where the main interaction with the SM is through the Higgs portal. For both cases we derive constraints from flavor, cosmology, direct and indirect DM detection, and collider searches.},
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journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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