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Constraining the minimal dark matter fiveplet with LHC searches

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Adding a fermion to the standard model particle content which is a fiveplet under SU(2)LSU(2)_L gives a dark matter candidate. The lightest state in the multiplet is neutral and automatically stable. The charged component of the multiplet is only slightly heavier and can travel a finite distance in the LHC detectors before decaying, leaving a charged track which disappears before the edge of the detector. We use the recent ATLAS and CMS searches to exclude a Majorana fiveplet with a mass up to 267 GeV. We estimate that with 3 ab1^{-1} of s=14\sqrt{s}=14 TeV data this could be pushed to a mass 520 GeV. These exclusions are 10%\sim 10\% greater than what is achieved for wino-like dark matter. We also discuss how the doubly charged states could be used to distinguish a disappearing track signal from that given by a triplet such as the pure wino.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03445,
  title  = {Constraining the minimal dark matter fiveplet with LHC searches},
  author = {Bryan Ostdiek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03445},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures