Electroweak and dark matter constraints on a Z^ in models with a hidden valley

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.10.029zbMATH Open1203.83058arXiv0903.1118OpenAlexW2085015373MaRDI QIDQ620673FDOQ620673

Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 19 January 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider current precision electroweak data, Z' searches and dark matter constraints and analyse their implications for an extension of the SM that includes an extra U(1)' massive gauge boson and a particular hidden sector ("hidden valley") with a confining (QCD-like) gauge group. The constraints on the Z' with arbitrary Z-Z' kinetic mixing coming from direct searches and precision tests of the Standard Model are analysed and shown to lead to a lower limit of 800 GeV on its mass. Renormalisable interactions involving the Z' probe the physics of the hidden valley sector which contains a pseudoscalar dark matter candidate. We find that dark matter constraints place an upper bound on the mass of the Z' of O(10) TeV. A TeV mass scale is needed for the hidden valley states, and the Sommerfeld factor for p-wave dark matter annihilation is found significantly to suppress the allowed parameter space of the model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1118

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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