Constraints on inert dark matter from metastability of the electroweak vacuum
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-09-09 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The inert scalar doublet model of dark matter can be valid up to the Planck scale. We briefly review the bounds on the model in such a scenario and identify parameter spaces that lead to absolute stability and metastability of the electroweak vacuum.
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@article{arxiv.1503.03085,
title = {Constraints on inert dark matter from metastability of the electroweak vacuum},
author = {Najimuddin Khan and Subhendu Rakshit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03085},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
26 pages, 9 figures. To appear in PRD