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Charged resonances and Minimal Dark Matter bound states at a multi-TeV muon collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-10-24 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A multi-TeV muon collider proves to be very efficient not only for the search for new heavy neutral particles, but also for the discovery of charged bosons of the WW^\prime type. We find that, by analyzing the associated production with a Standard Model W, charged resonances can be probed directly up to multi-TeV mass values close to the collision energy, and for very small couplings with the SM fermions, of the order of 10310410^{-3}-10^{-4} times the SM weak coupling. Additionally, charged bound states of WIMP Minimal Dark Matter, specifically a Majorana fermionic 5-plet, can be discovered with low statistics by running above the kinematic threshold, at a center-of-mass energy just slightly above the mass of the MDM bound state. This opens up a very interesting possibility for the discovery of WIMPs, complementary to the search for the resonant production of the neutral MDM bound state component, which relies on an on-peak search. For 5-plet MDM, indeed, the proposed search strategy is more efficient than the WIMP searches based on mono-X, missing-mass and disappearing tracks signatures.

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@article{arxiv.2304.12362,
  title  = {Charged resonances and Minimal Dark Matter bound states at a multi-TeV muon collider},
  author = {Natascia Vignaroli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12362},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v3: minor improvements, matches version to appear in JHEP