Accidental composite dark matter

By O. Antipin, M. Redi, Alessandro Strumia, Elena Vigiani. 2015

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A bstractWe build models where Dark Matter candidates arise as composite states of a new confining gauge force, stable thanks to accidental symmetries. Restricting to renormalizable theories compatible with SU(5) unification, we find 13 models based on SU(N) gauge theories and 9 based on SO(N). We also describe other models that require non-renormalizable interactions. The two gauge groups lead to distinctive phenomenologies: SU(N) theories give complex DM, with potentially observable electric and magnetic dipole moments that lead to peculiar spin-independent cross sections; SO(N) theories give real DM, with challenging spin-dependent cross sections or inelastic scatterings. Models with Yukawa couplings also give rise to spin-independent direct detection mediated by the Higgs boson and to electric dipole moments for the electron. In some models DM has higher spin. Each model predicts a specific set of lighter composite scalars, possibly observable at colliders.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. M. Redi
2. Alessandro Strumia
3. R. Rattazzi
4. F. Riva
5. G. Giudice
6. A. Pomarol
7. Matthew McCullough
8. A. Wulzer

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. M. Redi
2. Alessandro Strumia
3. R. Rattazzi
4. F. Riva
5. G. Giudice
6. A. Pomarol
7. A. Wulzer
8. G. Panico

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