Stealth dark matter: Dark scalar baryons through the Higgs portal



Appelquist, T, Brower, RC, Buchoff, MI, Fleming, GT, Jin, X-Y, Kiskis, J, Kribs, GD, Neil, ET, Osborn, JC, Rebbi, C
et al (show 7 more authors) (2015) Stealth dark matter: Dark scalar baryons through the Higgs portal. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 92 (7). 075030-.

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Abstract

We present a new model of "Stealth Dark Matter": a composite baryonic scalar of an $SU(N_D)$ strongly-coupled theory with even $N_D \geq 4$. All mass scales are technically natural, and dark matter stability is automatic without imposing an additional discrete or global symmetry. Constituent fermions transform in vector-like representations of the electroweak group that permit both electroweak-breaking and electroweak-preserving mass terms. This gives a tunable coupling of stealth dark matter to the Higgs boson independent of the dark matter mass itself. We specialize to $SU(4)$, and investigate the constraints on the model from dark meson decay, electroweak precision measurements, basic collider limits, and spin-independent direct detection scattering through Higgs exchange. We exploit our earlier lattice simulations that determined the composite spectrum as well as the effective Higgs coupling of stealth dark matter in order to place bounds from direct detection, excluding constituent fermions with dominantly electroweak-breaking masses. A lower bound on the dark baryon mass $m_B \gtrsim 300$ GeV is obtained from the indirect requirement that the lightest dark meson not be observable at LEP II. We briefly survey some intriguing properties of stealth dark matter that are worthy of future study, including: collider studies of dark meson production and decay; indirect detection signals from annihilation; relic abundance estimates for both symmetric and asymmetric mechanisms; and direct detection through electromagnetic polarizability, a detailed study of which will appear in a companion paper.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 15 pages, 3 figures, citations added, typos fixed, minor clarifications
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ph, hep-ph, hep-lat
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2020 09:03
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:58
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.075030
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3078191