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Inert sextuplet scalar dark matter at the LHC and future colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-04 v2

Abstract

We study a dark matter model constructed by extending the standard model with an inert SU(2)L\mathrm{SU}(2)_\mathrm{L} sextuplet scalar of hypercharge 1/2. The sextuplet components are split by the quartic couplings between the sextuplet and the Higgs doublet after electroweak symmetry breaking, resulting in a dark sector with one triply charged, two doubly charged, two singly charged, and two neutral scalars. The lighter neutral scalar boson acts as a dark matter particle. We investigate the constraints on this model from the monojet+/ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ET\text{monojet} + /\!\!\!\!E_\mathrm{T} and soft-dilepton+jets+/ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ET\text{soft-dilepton} + \text{jets} + /\!\!\!\!E_\mathrm{T} searches at the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider, as well as from the current electroweak precision test. Furthermore, we estimate the projected sensitivities of a 100 TeV pppp collider and of a future e+ee^+e^- collider, and find that such future projects could probe TeV mass scales. Nonetheless, such mass scales only correspond to a subdominant component of the observed relic abundance if the dark matter particles solely originate from thermal production.

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@article{arxiv.2008.06821,
  title  = {Inert sextuplet scalar dark matter at the LHC and future colliders},
  author = {Dan-Yang Liu and Chengfeng Cai and Zhao-Huan Yu and Yu-Pan Zeng and Hong-Hao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06821},
  year   = {2020}
}

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37 pages, 11 figures