Well-tempered n-plet dark matter
Abstract
We study simple effective models of fermionic WIMP dark matter, where the dark matter candidate is a mixture of a Standard Model singlet and an n-plet of SU(2) with n >= 3, stabilized by a discrete symmetry. The dark matter mass is assumed to be around the electroweak scale, and the mixing is generated by higher-dimensional operators, with a cutoff scale > 1 TeV. For appropriate values of the mass parameters and the mixing we find that the observed dark matter relic density can be generated by coannihilation. Direct detection experiments have already excluded large parts of the parameter space, and the next-generation experiments will further constrain these models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.00370,
title = {Well-tempered n-plet dark matter},
author = {A. Bharucha and F. Brümmer and R. Ruffault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00370},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
25 pages, 7 figures; v2: references and plots updated, minor corrections, conclusions unchanged