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Bound-state effects for dark matter with Higgs-like mediators

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-07-12 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study the impact of a scalar exchange on the dark matter relic abundance by solving a plasma-modified Schroedinger equation. A simplified model is considered where a Majorana dark matter fermion is embedded in a U(1)' extension of the Standard Model and couples with a dark Higgs via a Yukawa interaction. We find that the dark-Higgs exchange can increase the overclosure bounds significantly. For the largest (smallest) value of the Yukawa coupling examined in this work, the dark matter mass is lifted from 5 TeV (0.55 TeV) to 27 TeV (0.70 TeV).

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@article{arxiv.1805.00353,
  title  = {Bound-state effects for dark matter with Higgs-like mediators},
  author = {Simone Biondini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00353},
  year   = {2018}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures, published version

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