A SM Singlet Scalar as Dark Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-03-21 v1
Abstract
In this work we investigate the possibility that a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) can be the dark matter of the universe. We postulate the existence of a scalar field singlet like the Higgs as an extra term in the SM Lagrangian. We find that from the astrophysical point of view a very small mass and self-interaction is more convenient to agree with observations and from particle detectors observations we do not see any essential constrain to this settings. Thus, we conclude that a scalar field singlet with a small mass and self-interaction is a good candidate to be the nature of the dark matter.
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@article{arxiv.1403.5243,
title = {A SM Singlet Scalar as Dark Matter},
author = {Tonatiuh Matos and Ricardo Lopez-Fernandez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5243},
year = {2014}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure