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Singlet Fermionic Dark Matter with Dark $Z$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-12-16 v3

Abstract

We present a fermionic dark matter model mediated by the hidden gauge boson. We assume the QED-like hidden sector which consists of a Dirac fermion and U(1)X_X gauge symmetry, and introduce an additional scalar electroweak doublet field with the U(1)X_X charge as a mediator. The hidden U(1)X_X symmetry is spontaneously broken by the electroweak symmetry breaking and there exists a massive extra neutral gauge boson in this model which is the mediator between the hidden and visible sectors. Due to the U(1)X_X charge, the additional scalar doublet does not couple to the Standard Model fermions, which leads to the Higgs sector of type I two Higgs doublet model. The new gauge boson couples to the Standard Model fermions with couplings proportional to those of the ordinary ZZ boson but very suppressed, thus we call it the dark ZZ boson. We study the phenomenology of the dark ZZ boson and the Higgs sector, and show the hidden fermion can be the dark matter candidate.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2002.10075,
  title  = {Singlet Fermionic Dark Matter with Dark $Z$},
  author = {Dong-Won Jung and Soo-hyeon Nam and Chaehyun Yu and Yeong Gyun Kim and Kang Young Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10075},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures

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