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Inert doublet as multicomponent dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-12-18 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

In this work, we study multicomponent dark sectors comprised of a fermionic and a scalar dark matter candidate. In the scalar sector, we mostly focus on the Inert Doublet Model while in the fermionic sector we study three different models. For all of them, we investigate the impact that dark matter conversion and regular WIMP dark matter annihilating processes have on the relic abundance. We mostly recover the region between the electroweak scale and \sim 550 GeV for the scalar dark matter mass, which is usually excluded in the Inert Doublet Model. We also consider current constraints from both direct detection and indirect detection experiments and include future prospects to probe the models. Additionally, we investigate constraints from collider searches on the fermionic dark matter candidates.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2002.02036,
  title  = {Inert doublet as multicomponent dark matter},
  author = {Amalia Betancur and Guillermo Palacio and Andrés Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02036},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages, 22 figures, Matches the version accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B

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