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Toward a Comprehensive Exploration of Flavored Dark Matter Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-11-14 v1

Abstract

We present a comprehensive framework for the study of flavored dark matter models, combining relic density calculations with direct and indirect detection limits, collider constraints, and a global analysis of flavor observables based on SMEFT matching and renormalization-group evolution. The framework applies to scalar or fermionic dark matter, including both self-conjugate and non-self-conjugate cases. As a proof of principle, we analyze two scenarios with Majorana dark matter coupling to right-handed charged leptons and to right-handed down-type quarks, assuming a thermal freeze-out. In the leptophilic case, flavor-violating decays such as μeγ\mu \to e \gamma dominate the constraints, while LHC searches still leave sizable parameter space. For quark couplings, direct detection bounds and meson mixing severely restrict the allowed couplings, favoring hierarchical flavor structures. The toolchain presented in this paper is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/lena-ra/Flavored-Dark-Matter).

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@article{arxiv.2511.10490,
  title  = {Toward a Comprehensive Exploration of Flavored Dark Matter Models},
  author = {Benedetta Belfatto and Monika Blanke and Jan Heisig and Michael Krämer and Lena Rathmann and Felix Wilsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.10490},
  year   = {2025}
}

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51 pages, 8 figures