Effective field theory analysis of composite Higgsino-like and wino-like thermal relic dark matter

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/060zbMATH Open1485.83045arXiv2011.06025OpenAlexW3165190836MaRDI QIDQ5028147FDOQ5028147

Authors: Ben Geytenbeek, Ben M. Gripaios 

Publication date: 8 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effective field theory (including operators up to dimension five) of models in which dark matter is composite, consisting of either an electroweak doublet Dirac fermion (`higgsino-like dark matter') or an electroweak triplet Majorana fermion (`wino-like dark matter'). Some of the dimension-five operators in the former case cause mass splittings between the neutralino and chargino states, leading to a depleted rate of coannihilations and viable thermal relic dark matter with masses of the order of tens to hundreds of GeV rather than the usual pure higgsino thermal relic mass of 1 TeV. No such effects are found in the latter case (where the usual thermal relic mass is 3 TeV). Other operators, present for both wino- and higgsino-like dark matter, correspond to inelastic electromagnetic dipole moment interactions and annihilation through these can lead to viable models with dark matter masses up by an order of magnitude compared to the usual values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06025

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zbMATH Keywords

dark matter theorydark matter simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10)

Cites Work

• LanHEP - a package for the automatic generation of Feynman rules in field theory. Version 3.0
• micrOMEGAs: a program for calculating the relic density in the MSSM
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• The cosmology of composite inelastic dark matter

Uses Software

• LanHEP
• micrOMEGAs
• CalcHEP

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