A model for dark matter, naturalness and a complete gauge unification
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Survontie 9, 40014 Jyväskylä (Finland)
- 2. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2a, 00560 Helsinki (Finland)
Description
We consider dark matter in a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) which breaks electroweak symmetry dynamically and leads to a complete unification of the SM and technicolor coupling constants. The unification scale is determined to be MU ≈ 2.2 × 1015 GeV and the unified coupling αU ≈ 0.0304. Moreover, unification strongly suggest that the technicolor sector of the model must become strong at the scale of O(TeV) . The model also contains a tightly constrained sector of mixing neutral fields stabilized by a discrete symmetry. We find the lightest of these states can be DM with a mass in the range 0mDM ≈ 3–080 GeV . We find a large set of parameters that satisfy all available constraints from colliders and from dark matter search experiments. However, most of the available parameter space is within the reach of the next generation of DM search experiments. The model is also sensitive to a modest improvement in the measurement of the precision electroweak parameters
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/07/034Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2015
- Journal Issue
- 07
- Journal Page Range
- p. 034
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47096652
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; COUPLING CONSTANTS; EEV RANGE; LIMITING VALUES; MASS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SPACE; STANDARD MODEL; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VISIBLE RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS