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Scalar Dark Matter in light of LEP and ILC Experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-01-06 v2

Abstract

In this work we study a scalar field dark matter model with mass of the order of 100 MeV. We assume dark matter is produced in the process e+e+ϕ+ϕ+γe^-+e^+\to \phi +\phi^*+\gamma, that, in fact, could be a background for the standard process e+e+ν+νˉ+γe^-+e^+\to \nu +\bar\nu+\gamma extensively studied at LEP. We constrain the chiral couplings, CLC_L and CRC_R, of the dark matter with electrons through an intermediate fermion of mass mF=100m_F=100 GeV and obtain CL=0.1(0.25)C_L=0.1(0.25) and CR=0.25(0.1)C_R=0.25(0.1) for the best fit point of our χ2\chi^2 analysis. We also analyze the potential of ILC to detect this scalar dark matter for two configurations: (i) center of mass energy s=500\sqrt{s}=500 GeV and luminosity L=250\mathcal{L}=250 fb1^{-1}, and (ii) center of mass energy s=1\sqrt{s}=1 TeV and luminosity L=500\mathcal{L}=500 fb1^{-1}. The differences of polarized beams are also explored to better study the chiral couplings.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06475,
  title  = {Scalar Dark Matter in light of LEP and ILC Experiments},
  author = {F. Rossi-Torres and C. A. Moura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06475},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. New references added and improvements in the text. Conclusions unchanged