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Dark Matter emission at Belle II and NA62 in Minimal Flavor Violation framework

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV) provides a compelling framework for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model, in which new QCD-singlet fields transforming under the global SU(3)3\mathrm{SU}(3)^3 quark flavor symmetry can naturally be stable and act as dark matter (DM) candidates. We show that the DM-MFV framework naturally accommodates the excess in either K+π+ννˉK^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu} or B+K+ννˉB^+ \to K^+ \nu \bar{\nu}, while a unified explanation of both channels simultaneously cannot be achieved within a minimal setup containing only a single dark matter multiplet with nearly degenerate masses. Overall, our findings underscore the intricate interplay between MFV-based model building, flavored dark matter scenarios, and precision flavor experiments, highlighting flavored dark matter as a framework that is both theoretically robust and experimentally testable.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.08907,
  title  = {Dark Matter emission at Belle II and NA62 in Minimal Flavor Violation framework},
  author = {Federico Mescia and Shohei Okawa and Joel Swallow and Claudio Toni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08907},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures. Matched to the published version