Inert sextuplet scalar dark matter at the LHC and future colliders
Abstract
We study a dark matter model constructed by extending the standard model with an inert 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 and 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 collider and of a future 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