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Predicted Higgs-related spin 1/2 particles as a new dark matter candidate

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-11-03 v1

Abstract

The theory at arXiv:1101.0586 [hep-th] predicts new fundamental spin 1/21/2 particles which can be produced in pairs through their couplings to vector bosons or fermions. The lowest-energy of these should have a mass m1/2m_{1/2} comparable to the mass mhm_h of the recently discovered Higgs boson, with m1/2=mhm_{1/2} = m_h in the simplest model. These particles should therefore be detectable in collider experiments, perhaps in Run 2 or 3 of the LHC. They cannot decay through any obvious mechanisms in standard physics, making them a new dark matter candidate. In the simplest model, annihilations would produce a well-defined signature with photons, positrons, and excess electrons at about 125 GeV, and the mass would also be well-defined for direct dark matter detection.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00301,
  title  = {Predicted Higgs-related spin 1/2 particles as a new dark matter candidate},
  author = {Joshua Stenzel and Johannes Kroll and Minjie Lei and Roland E. Allen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00301},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages. Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015