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Dark Matter from a Classically Scale-Invariant $SU(3)_X$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-07 v3

Abstract

In this work we study a classically scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model in which the dark matter and electroweak scales are generated through the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. The extra SU(3)XSU(3)_X gauge factor gets completely broken by the vacuum expectation values of two scalar triplets. Out of the eight resulting massive vector bosons the three lightest are stable due to an intrinsic Z2×Z2Z_2\times Z_2' discrete symmetry and can constitute dark matter candidates. We analyze the phenomenological viability of the predicted multi-Higgs sector imposing theoretical and experimental constraints. We perform a comprehensive analysis of the dark matter predictions of the model solving numerically the set of coupled Boltzmann equations involving all relevant dark matter processes and explore the direct detection prospects of the dark matter candidates.

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@article{arxiv.1607.01001,
  title  = {Dark Matter from a Classically Scale-Invariant $SU(3)_X$},
  author = {Alexandros Karam and Kyriakos Tamvakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01001},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

39 pp, 5 figures, 3 tables, comments added, minor corrections, updated references, matches version published in PRD

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