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CP violating scalar Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We study an extension of the Standard Model (SM) in which two copies of the SM scalar SU(2)SU(2) doublet which do not acquire a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), and hence are \textit{inert}, are added to the scalar sector. We allow for CP-violation in the \textit{inert} sector, where the lightest \textit{inert} state is protected from decaying to SM particles through the conservation of a Z2Z_2 symmetry. The lightest neutral particle from the \textit{inert} sector, which has a mixed CP-charge due to CP-violation, is hence a Dark Matter (DM) candidate. We discuss the new regions of DM relic density opened up by CP-violation, and compare our results to the CP-conserving limit and the Inert Doublet Model (IDM). We constrain the parameter space of the CP-violating model using recent results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and DM direct and indirect detection experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01673,
  title  = {CP violating scalar Dark Matter},
  author = {A. Cordero-Cid and J. Hernández-Sánchez and V. Keus and S. F. King and S. Moretti and D. Rojas and D. Sokołowska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01673},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

42 pages, 22 figures

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