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Electroweak dark matter model accounting for the CDF $W$-mass anomaly

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-14 v3

Abstract

Recently, the CDF collaboration reported a new measurement of the WW boson mass MW=80.4335±0.0094M_W = 80.4335 \pm 0.0094 GeV, which shows a 7σ\sim 7\sigma deviation from the standard model prediction 80.3545±0.005780.3545 \pm 0.0057 GeV obtained by the electroweak (EW) global fit. This deviation can be explained by new physics generating moderate EW oblique parameters SS, TT, and UU. In this work, we use the loop corrections induced by some extra EW multiplets to explain the CDF MWM_W anomaly. The lightest neutral particle in the multiplets can also serve as a candidate of cold dark matter (DM). We consider two such models, namely singlet-triplet scalar DM and singlet-doublet fermionic DM models, and perform numerical scans to find the parameter points accounting for the MWM_W anomaly. The constraints from the correct DM thermal relic density and direct detection are also taken into account. We find the parameter points simultaneously interpreting the MWM_W anomaly and satisfying the DM requirements in the former model, but do not find such parameter points in the latter model.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.00783,
  title  = {Electroweak dark matter model accounting for the CDF $W$-mass anomaly},
  author = {Jin-Wei Wang and Xiao-Jun Bi and Peng-Fei Yin and Zhao-Huan Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00783},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

23 pages, 5 figures; v3: matches version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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