Quark-flavored scalar dark matter

Sep 14, 2015
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 92 (2015) 11, 115012
  • Published: Dec 15, 2015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UDEM-GPP-TH-15-244,
  • UMISS-HEP-2015-03

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Abstract: (APS)
It is an intriguing possibility that dark matter (DM) could have flavor quantum numbers like the quarks. We propose and investigate a class of UV-complete models of this kind, in which the dark matter is in a scalar triplet of an SU(3) flavor symmetry, and interacts with quarks via a colored flavor-singlet fermionic mediator. Such mediators could be discovered at the LHC if their masses are ∼1  TeV. We constrain the DM-mediator couplings using relic abundance, direct detection, and flavor-changing neutral-current considerations. We find that, for reasonable values of its couplings, scalar flavored DM can contribute significantly to the real and imaginary parts of the Bs-B¯s mixing amplitude. We further assess the potential for such models to explain the Galactic center GeV gamma-ray excess.
Note:
  • 16 pages, 14 figures; added section on benchmark models and typographical errors corrected
  • 95.35.+d
  • dark matter: scalar
  • triplet: scalar
  • neutral current: flavor changing
  • symmetry: flavor
  • flavor: SU(3)
  • mediation
  • quark
  • dark matter: direct detection
  • dark matter: annihilation