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Limiting the Heavy-quark and Gluon-philic Real Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-08-17 v3

Abstract

We investigate the phenomenological viability of real spin half, zero and one dark matter candidates, which interact predominantly with third generation heavy quarks and gluons via the twenty-eight gauge invariant higher dimensional effective operators. The corresponding Wilson coefficients are constrained one at a time from the relic density ΩDMh2\Omega^{\rm DM} h^2 \approx 0.1198. Their contributions to the thermal averaged annihilation cross-sections are shown to be consistent with the FermiLAT and H.E.S.S. experiments' projected upper bound on the annihilation cross-section in the bbˉb\,\bar b mode. The tree-level gluon-philic and one-loop induced heavy-quark-philic DM-nucleon direct-detection cross-sections are analysed. The non-observation of any excess over expected background in the case of recoiled Xe-nucleus events for spin-independent DM-nucleus scattering in XENON-1T sets the upper limits on the eighteen Wilson coefficients. Our analysis validates the real DM candidates for the large range of accessible mass spectrum below 2 TeV for all but one interaction induced by the said operators.

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@article{arxiv.2110.11857,
  title  = {Limiting the Heavy-quark and Gluon-philic Real Dark Matter},
  author = {Sukanta Dutta and Lalit Kumar Saini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11857},
  year   = {2022}
}

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42 pages, 14 figures