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Copositive criteria for a two-component dark matter model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-29 v4

Abstract

We consider a two-component scalar dark matter model in this work, where the scalars are stabilized by extra Z2×Z2Z_2 \times Z'_2 symmetry. To guarantee the stability of the vacuum, we consider the copositive criteria and different choices of the signs of the couplings will contribute to different viable parameter spaces. Based on the copositive criteria, we systematically analyze the possible conditions and pick up 17 different cases with fixing some parameters to be negative. We randomly scan the parameter space under dark matter relic density constraint and direct detection constraint and focus on the quartic couplings with λ13\lambda_{13},λ23\lambda_{23},λ14\lambda_{14} and λ24\lambda_{24}. The shapes of the viable parameter space for λ14λ24|\lambda_{14}|-|\lambda_{24}| are almost similar among these cases, while for λ13|\lambda_{13}| and λ23|\lambda_{23}|, the larger value are excluded as long as λ130\lambda_{13}\leqslant 0 and λ230\lambda_{23}\leqslant 0 due to the large interference effect of the 222 \to 2 processes.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11236,
  title  = {Copositive criteria for a two-component dark matter model},
  author = {Xin-Xin Qi and Hao Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11236},
  year   = {2026}
}
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