Reopening the Higgs portal for single scalar dark matter

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)036zbMATH Open1380.85013arXiv1701.08134MaRDI QIDQ682913FDOQ682913

J. A. Casas, J. Quilis, Jesús M. Moreno, D. G. Cerdeño

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A real singlet scalar, connected to the Standard Model sector through a portal with the Higgs boson, is one of the simplest and most popular models for dark matter (DM). However, the experimental advances in direct and indirect DM searches, together with the latest results from the LHC, have ruled out vast areas of the parameter space of this scenario, and are expected to probe it completely within the next years, ruling it out if no signal is found. Motivated by the simplicity of this model, in this article we address a minimal, renormalizable extension that could evade detection, consisting of the addition of an extra real singlet scalar field in the dark sector. We analyze the physical constraints on the model and show that the new annihilation and/or coannihilation channels involving the extra singlet allow to reproduce the correct DM relic abundance while avoiding the bounds from direct and indirect searches for any DM mass above 50 GeV. We also show that, in some interesting regions of the parameter space, the extra particle can be integrated-out, leaving a "clever" effective theory (just involving the DM particle and the Higgs), that essentially reproduces the results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08134

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Cites Work

• MicrOMEGAs 2.0: A program to calculate the relic density of dark matter in a generic model
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Cited In (8)

• Charged composite scalar dark matter
• Electroweak phase transition confronted with dark matter detection constraints
• Cancellation in dark matter-nucleon interactions: the role of non-standard-model-like Yukawa couplings
• Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings
• Dark matter seeping through dynamic gauge kinetic mixing
• Multi-component dark sectors: symmetries, asymmetries and conversions
• Dark matter from a complex scalar singlet: the role of dark CP and other discrete symmetries
• Dark matter in three-Higgs-doublet models with \(S_3\) symmetry

Uses Software

• micrOMEGAs
• CalcHEP

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