Doubly blind spots in scalar dark matter models
Abstract
We consider a framework where the Standard Model is augmented by a second SU(2) scalar doublet and by a real scalar singlet that, protected by a Z2 symmetry, provides a particle dark matter candidate. We show that this setup allows for doubly blind spots at both collider searches for anomalies in the Higgs invisible decay width, and at direct dark matter detection. The blind spots originate from cancellations between interfering diagrams featuring different neutral scalar exchanges and from cancellations driven by the two-Higgs doublet structure in the vertex coupling the singlet state with the Standard-Model-like Higgs. We demonstrate that the blind spots arise in a wide and generic array of realizations for the two-Higgs doublet model, including scenarios with a nontrivial flavor structure. We provide analytical formulas that describe the location of the blind spots in the theory parameter space, and we discuss the resulting phenomenology.
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- Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1564557
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1611355
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- de-sc0010107; SC0010107; PHY-912719
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Extensions of Higgs sector; Particle dark matter
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Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Maddock, Brian, and Profumo, Stefano. Doubly blind spots in scalar dark matter models. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055033.
Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Maddock, Brian, & Profumo, Stefano. Doubly blind spots in scalar dark matter models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055033
Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Maddock, Brian, and Profumo, Stefano. Mon .
"Doubly blind spots in scalar dark matter models". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055033.
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title = {Doubly blind spots in scalar dark matter models},
author = {Altmannshofer, Wolfgang and Maddock, Brian and Profumo, Stefano},
abstractNote = {We consider a framework where the Standard Model is augmented by a second SU(2) scalar doublet and by a real scalar singlet that, protected by a Z2 symmetry, provides a particle dark matter candidate. We show that this setup allows for doubly blind spots at both collider searches for anomalies in the Higgs invisible decay width, and at direct dark matter detection. The blind spots originate from cancellations between interfering diagrams featuring different neutral scalar exchanges and from cancellations driven by the two-Higgs doublet structure in the vertex coupling the singlet state with the Standard-Model-like Higgs. We demonstrate that the blind spots arise in a wide and generic array of realizations for the two-Higgs doublet model, including scenarios with a nontrivial flavor structure. We provide analytical formulas that describe the location of the blind spots in the theory parameter space, and we discuss the resulting phenomenology.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055033},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 5,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {9}
}
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