Predicted Higgs-related spin 1/2 particles as a new dark matter candidate
Abstract
The theory at arXiv:1101.0586 [hep-th] predicts new fundamental spin particles which can be produced in pairs through their couplings to vector bosons or fermions. The lowest-energy of these should have a mass comparable to the mass of the recently discovered Higgs boson, with 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