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IDMS: Inert Dark Matter Model with a complex singlet

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-05-31 v3

Abstract

Within the Inert Doublet Model (IDM) there is a viable dark matter candidate. This simple model can provide a strong enough first order phase transition, which is required in order to account for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe (BAU). However, another necessary ingredient is missing, as there is no additional source of CP violation in the IDM, besides the standard CKM phase from the Standard Model. Additional CP violating phase can appear if a complex singlet of SU(3)C×SU(2)W×U(1)YSU(3)_C \times SU(2)_W \times U(1)_Y with a non-zero vacuum expectation value is added to the scalar sector of the IDM. We construct the scalar potential of the inert doublet plus singlet model (IDMS), assuming an exact Z2Z_2 symmetry, with singlet being Z2Z_2-even. To simplify the model we use a softly broken U(1)U(1) symmetry, which allows a reduction of the number of free parameters in the potential. We study the masses and interactions of scalar particles for a few benchmark scenarios. Constraints from collider physics, in particular from the Higgs signal observed at LHC with Mh125M_h\approx 125 GeV are discussed, as well as constraints from the dark matter experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8730,
  title  = {IDMS: Inert Dark Matter Model with a complex singlet},
  author = {Cesar Bonilla and Dorota Sokolowska and Neda Darvishi and J. Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz and Maria Krawczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8730},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

v3: updated references, extended discussion about parameter space, updated experimental constraints, results and conclusions unchanged. To appear in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

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