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Leptobaryons as Majorana Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-23 v3

Abstract

We explore the dark matter and collider phenomenology of the minimal gauged U(1)BU(1)_B model, consisting of a leptophobic ZBZ_B gauge boson, and an accompanying Higgs SBS_B. By requirement of anomaly cancellation, the fermion sector naturally contains a dark matter candidate---a Majorana isosinglet χ\chi stabilized by an inherent Z2Z_2 symmetry. The absence of evidence for ZZ prime dijet resonances at the LHC suggests that the scale of symmetry breaking ΛB500\Lambda_{B}\gtrsim 500 GeV. Saturation of dark matter abundance together with limits on the direct detection cross section (dominated by Higgs exchange) constrains the Higgs mixing angle to θ0.22|\theta|\lesssim 0.22. For small mixing angles of θ103|\theta| \lesssim 10^{-3}, the O(10%)\mathcal{O}(10\%) branching fractions of the fermion loop-mediated SBγγS_B\rightarrow\gamma \gamma, ZγZ\gamma, ZZZZ modes may provide clues about the fermion content of the model at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00954,
  title  = {Leptobaryons as Majorana Dark Matter},
  author = {Sebastian Ohmer and Hiren H. Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00954},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 10 figures; v3: corrected typos, to appear in PRD

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