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Composite Dark Matter and a horizontal symmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-02-24 v1

Abstract

We present a model of composite Dark Matter (DM), in which a new QCD-like confining "hypercolor" sector generates naturally stable hyperbaryons as DM candidates and at the same time provides mass to new weakly coupled gauge bosons HH that serve as DM mediators, coupling the hyperbaryons to the Standard Model (SM) fermions. By an appropriate choice of the HH gauge symmetry as a horizontal SU(2)hSU(2)_h SM flavor symmetry, we show how the HH gauge bosons can be identified with the horizontal gauge bosons recently put forward as an explanation for discrepancies in rare BB-meson decays. We find that the mass scale of the HH gauge bosons suggested by the DM phenomenology intriguingly agrees with the one needed to explain the rare BB-decay discrepancies.

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@article{arxiv.2007.11931,
  title  = {Composite Dark Matter and a horizontal symmetry},
  author = {Alexandre Carvunis and Diego Guadagnoli and Meril Reboud and Peter Stangl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.11931},
  year   = {2021}
}

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24 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables

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