Simplified models of dark matter with a long-lived co-annihilation partner
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Publication:683129
DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)041zbMATH Open1380.85018arXiv1702.00750OpenAlexW3099587139MaRDI QIDQ683129FDOQ683129
Valentin V. Khoze, Alexis D. Plascencia, Kazuki Sakurai
Publication date: 5 February 2018
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We introduce a new set of simplified models to address the effects of 3-point interactions between the dark matter particle, its dark co-annihilation partner, and the Standard Model degree of freedom, which we take to be the tau lepton. The contributions from dark matter co-annihilation channels are highly relevant for a determination of the correct relic abundance. We investigate these effects as well as the discovery potential for dark matter co-annihilation partners at the LHC. A small mass splitting between the dark matter and its partner is preferred by the co-annihilation mechanism and suggests that the co-annihilation partners may be long-lived (stable or meta-stable) at collider scales. It is argued that such long-lived electrically charged particles can be looked for at the LHC in searches of anomalous charged tracks. This approach and the underlying models provide an alternative/complementarity to the mono-jet and multi-jet based dark matter searches widely used in the context of simplified models with the s-channel mediators. We consider four types of simplified models with different particle spins and coupling structures. Some of these models are manifestly gauge invariant and renormalizable, others would ultimately require a UV completion. These can be realised in terms of supersymmetric models in the neutralino-stau co-annihilation regime, as well as models with extra dimensions or composite models.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00750
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