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Restudy on Dark Matter Time-Evolution in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-01 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Following previous study, in the Littlest Higgs model (LHM), the heavy photon is supposed to be a possible dark matter candidate and its relic abundance of the heavy photon is estimated in terms of the Boltzman-Lee-Weinberg time-evolution equation. The effects of the T-parity violation is also considered. Our calculations show that when Higgs mass MHM_H taken to be 300 GeV and don't consider T-parity violation, only two narrow ranges 133<MAH<135133<M_{A_{H}}<135 GeV and 167<MAH<169167<M_{A_{H}}<169 GeV are tolerable with the current astrophysical observation and if 135<MAH<167135<M_{A_{H}}<167 GeV, there must at least exist another species of heavy particle contributing to the cold dark matter. As long as the T-parity can be violated, the heavy photon can decay into regular standard model particles and would affect the dark matter abundance in the universe, we discuss the constraint on the T-parity violation parameter based on the present data. Direct detection prospects are also discussed in some detail.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3254,
  title  = {Restudy on Dark Matter Time-Evolution in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity},
  author = {Qing-Peng Qiao and Jian Tang and Xue-Qian Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3254},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 11 figures included

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