The new Minimal Standard Model

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015

We promote the idea of multi-component Dark Matter (DM) to explain results from both direct and indirect detection experiments. In these models as contribution of each DM candidate to relic abundance is summed up to meet WMAP/Planck measurements of Ω DM , these candidates have larger annihilation cross-sections compared to the single-component DM models. This results in larger γ-ray flux in indirect detection experiments of DM. We illustrate this fact by introducing an extra scalar to the popular single real scalar DM model. We also present detailed calculations for the vacuum stability bounds, perturbative unitarity and triviality constraints on this model. As direct detection experimental results still show some conflict, we kept our options open, discussing different scenarios with different DM mass zones. In the framework of our model we make an interesting observation: The existing direct detection experiments like CDMS II, CoGeNT, CRESST II, XENON 100 or LUX together with the observation of excess low energy γ-ray from Galactic Centre and Fermi Bubble by FGST already have the capability to distinguish between different DM halo profiles.

Journal of High Energy Physics

We consider a conformal complex singlet extension of the Standard Model with a Higgs portal interaction. The global U(1) symmetry of the complex singlet can be either broken or unbroken and we study each scenario. In the unbroken case, the global U(1) symmetry protects the complex singlet from decaying, leading to an ideal cold dark matter candidate with approximately 100 GeV mass along with a significant proportion of thermal relic dark matter abundance. In the broken case, we have developed a renormalization-scale optimization technique to significantly narrow the parameter space and in some situations, provide unique predictions for all the model's couplings and masses. We have found there exists a second Higgs boson with a mass of approximately 550 GeV that mixes with the known 125 GeV Higgs with a large mixing angle sin θ ≈ 0.47 consistent with current experimental limits. The imaginary part of the complex singlet in the broken case could provide axion dark matter for a wide range of models. Upon including interactions of the complex scalar with an additional vector-like fermion, we explore the possibility of a diphoton excess in both the unbroken and the broken cases. In the unbroken case, the model can provide a natural explanation for diphoton excess if extra terms are introduced providing extra contributions to the singlet mass. In the broken case, we find a set of coupling solutions that yield a second Higgs boson of mass 720 GeV and an 830 GeV extra vector-like fermion F , which is able to address the 750 GeV LHC diphoton excess. We

Physical Review D

Physical Review D, 2016

The scalar particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has properties very similar to that of a standard model (SM) Higgs boson. Limited experimental knowledge of its model origin, as of now, however, does not rule out the possibility of accommodating this new particle into a beyond the SM (BSM) framework. A few of these schemes suggest that the observed scalar is just the lightest candidate of an enriched sector with several other heavier states awaiting to be detected. Such models with nonminimal scalar sector also accommodate other neutral and electrically charged (singly, doubly, triply, etc.) component fields as prescribed by the specific model. Depending on the mass and electric charge, these new states can produce potential signatures at colliders as well as in low-energy experiments. The presence of a doubly charged scalar, when accompanied by other neutral or charged scalar(s), can also generate neutrino masses. Adopting the second scenario, e.g., Babu-Zee construction, constraints from neutrino physics have been effaced in this study. Here, we investigate a few phenomenological consequences of a uncoloured doubly charged scalar which couples to the charged leptons as well as gauge bosons. Restricting ourselves in the regime of conserved charged-parity (CP), we assume only a few nonzero Yukawa couplings (y µ , where = e, µ, τ) between the doubly charged scalar and the charged leptons. Our choices allow the doubly charged scalar to impinge low-energy processes like anomalous magnetic moment of muon and a few possible charged lepton flavour violating (CLFV) processes. These same Yukawa couplings are also instrumental in producing same-sign dilepton signatures at the LHC. In this article we examine the impact of individual contributions from the diagonal and off-diagonal Yukawa couplings in the light of muon (g − 2) excess. Subsequently, we use the derived information to inquire the possible CLFV processes and finally the collider signals from the decay of a doubly charged scalar. Our simplified analyses, depending on the mass of doubly charged scalar, provide a good estimate for the magnitude of the concerned Yukawa couplings. Our findings would appear resourceful to test the phenomenological significance of a doubly charged scalar by using complementary information from muon (g − 2), CLFV and the collider experiments.

Physical Review D

We study the B-L gauge extension of the Standard Model which contains a singlet scalar and three right-handed neutrinos. The vacuum expectation value of the singlet scalar breaks the U(1)B-L symmetry. Here the third-generation right-handed neutrino is qualified as the dark matter candidate, as an artifact of Z2-charge assignment. Relic abundance of the dark matter is consistent with WMAP9 and PLANCK data, only near scalar resonances where dark matter mass is almost half of the scalar boson masses. Requiring correct relic abundance, we restrict the parameter space of the scalar mixing angle and mass of the heavy scalar boson of this model. Besides this, the maximum value of the spin-independent scattering cross section off nucleon is well below the Xenon100 and recent LUX exclusion limits and can be probed by future Xenon1T experiments. In addition, we compute the annihilation of the dark matter into a two-photon final state in detail and compare with the Fermi-LAT upper bound on ⟨σv...

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2012

We present a global study of the simplest scalar phantom dark matter model. The best fit parameters of the model are determined by simultaneously imposing (i) relic density constraint from WMAP, (ii) 225 live days data from direct experiment XENON100, (iii) upper limit of gamma-ray flux from Fermi-LAT indirect detection based on dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies, and (iv) the Higgs boson candidate with a mass about 125 GeV and its invisible branching ratio no larger than 40% if the decay of the Higgs boson into a pair of dark matter is kinematically allowed. The allowed parameter space is then used to predict annihilation cross sections for gamma-ray lines, event rates for three processes mono-b jet, single charged lepton and two charged leptons plus missing energies at the Large Hadron Collider, as well as to evaluate the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment for the model.

2005

In theories with a low quantum gravity scale, global symmetries are expected to be violated, inducing excessive proton decay or large Majorana neutrino masses. The simplest cure is to impose discrete gauge symmetries, which in turn make neutrinos massless. We construct models that employ these gauge symmetries while naturally generating small neutrino masses. Majorana (Dirac) neutrino masses are generated through the breaking of a discrete (continuous) gauge symmetry at low energies, e.g., 2 keV-1 GeV. The Majorana case predicts ∆Nν ≃ 1 at BBN, neutrinoless double beta decay with scalar emission, and modifications to the CMB anisotropies from domain walls in the universe as well as providing a possible Dark Energy candidate. For the Dirac case, despite the presence of a new light gauge boson, all laboratory, astrophysical, and cosmological constraints can be avoided. function overlaps are sufficiently small.

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009

It is well known that stable weak scale particles are viable dark matter candidates since the annihilation cross section is naturally about the right magnitude to leave the correct thermal residual abundance. Many dark matter searches have focused on relatively light dark matter consistent with weak couplings to the Standard Model. However, in a strongly coupled theory, or even if the coupling is just a few times bigger than the Standard Model couplings, dark matter can have TeV-scale mass with the correct thermal relic abundance. Here we consider neutral TeV-mass scalar dark matter, its necessary interactions, and potential signals. We consider signals both with and without higherdimension operators generated by strong coupling at the TeV scale, as might happen for example in an RS scenario. We find some potential for detection in high energy photons that depends on the dark matter distribution. Detection in positrons at lower energies, such as those PAMELA probes, would be difficult though a higher energy positron signal could in principle be detectable over background. However, a light dark matter particle with higher-dimensional interactions consistent with a TeV cutoff can in principle match PAMELA data.

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014

We consider the Higgs portal Z 2 scalar model as the minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) to incorporate the dark matter. We analyze this model by using the two-loop renormalization group equations. We find that the dark matter mass is bounded to be lighter than 1000 GeV within the framework that we have proposed earlier, where the Higgs inflation occurs above the SM cutoff Λ, thanks to the fact that the Higgs potential becomes much smaller than its typical value in the SM: V Λ 4. We can further fix the dark matter mass to be 400 GeV < m DM < 470 GeV if we impose that the cutoff is at the string scale Λ ∼ 10 17 GeV and that the Higgs potential becomes flat around Λ, as is required by the multiple point principle or by the Higgs inflation at the critical point. This prediction is testable by the dark matter detection experiments in the near future. In this framework, the dark matter and top quark masses are strongly correlated, which is also testable.

Nuclear Physics B, 2020

The observed Higgs mass indicates that the Standard Model can be valid up to near the Planck scale M P. Within this framework, it is important to examine how little modification is necessary to fit the recent experimental results in particle physics and cosmology. As a minimal extension, we consider the possibility that the Higgs field plays the role of inflaton and that the dark matter is the Higgs-portal scalar field. We assume that the extended Standard Model is valid up to the string scale 10 17 GeV. (This translates to the assumption that all the non-minimal couplings are not particularly large, ξ 10 2 , as in the critical Higgs inflation, since M P / √ 10 2 ∼ 10 17 GeV.) We find a correlated theoretical bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and the dark matter mass m DM. As a result, the Planck bound r < 0.09 implies that the dark-matter mass must be smaller than 1.1 TeV, while the PandaX-II bound on the dark-matter mass m DM > 0.7 ± 0.2 TeV leads to r 2 × 10 −3. Both are within the range of near-future detection. When we include the right-handed neutrinos of mass M R ∼ 10 14 GeV, the allowed region becomes wider, but we still predict r 10 −3 in the most of the parameter space. The most conservative bound becomes r > 10 −5 if we allow three-parameter tuning of m DM , M R , and the top-quark mass.

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017

We present a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) providing a consistent picture of particle physics from the electroweak scale to the Planck scale and of cosmology from inflation until today. Three right-handed neutrinos N i , a new color triplet Q and a complex SM-singlet scalar σ, whose vacuum expectation value v σ ∼ 10 11 GeV breaks lepton number and a Peccei-Quinn symmetry simultaneously, are added to the SM. At low energies, the model reduces to the SM, augmented by seesaw generated neutrino masses and mixing, plus the axion. The latter solves the strong CP problem and accounts for the cold dark matter in the Universe. The inflaton is comprised by a mixture of σ and the SM Higgs, and reheating of the Universe after inflation proceeds via the Higgs portal. Baryogenesis occurs via thermal leptogenesis. Thus, five fundamental problems of particle physics and cosmology are solved at one stroke in this unified Standard Model-Axion-seesaw-Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model. It can be probed decisively by upcoming cosmic microwave background and axion dark matter experiments.

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2014

We give an evidence of the Big Fix. The theory of wormholes and multiverse suggests that the parameters of the Standard Model are fixed in such a way that the total entropy at the late stage of the universe is maximized, which we call the maximum entropy principle. In this paper, we discuss how it can be confirmed by the experimental data, and we show that it is indeed true for the Higgs vacuum expectation value vh. We assume that the baryon number is produced by the sphaleron process, and that the current quark masses, the gauge couplings and the Higgs self-coupling are fixed when we vary vh. It turns out that the existence of the atomic nuclei plays a crucial role to maximize the entropy. This is reminiscent of the anthropic principle, however it is required by the fundamental law in our case.

The European Physical Journal C, 2012

We report on the possible interpretation of the two proposed dark matter mass values m χ = 11.6 GeV and m χ = 25.3 GeV from CRESST-II within the framework of the Higgs portal minimal dark matter model. We find that the higher mass value yields a suitable fit with a dark matter-Higgs coupling η/2 = 0.157 and a recoil cross section which is compatible with contemporary estimates of the effective Higgs-nucleon coupling. On the other hand, the lower mass solution would require a large strangeness component in the nucleon to explain the corresponding nucleon recoil cross section reported by CRESST-II.

International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2018

We review predictions and constraints for nuclear recoil signals from Higgs portal dark matter under the assumption of standard thermal creation from freeze-out. Thermally created scalar and vector Higgs portal dark matter masses are constrained to be in the resonance region near half the Higgs mass, [Formula: see text], or above several TeV. The resonance region for these models will be tested by XENONnT and LZ. The full mass range up to the unitarity limit can be tested by DarkSide-20k and DARWIN. Fermionic Higgs portal dark matter with a pure CP odd coupling is constrained by the Higgs decay width, but has strongly suppressed recoil cross sections which cannot be tested with upcoming experiments. Fermionic Higgs portal dark matter with a combination of CP even and odd Higgs couplings can be constrained by the direct search experiments.

The European Physical Journal C, 2019

We point out that string theory can solve the conundrum to explain the emergence of an electroweak dipole moment from electroweak singlets through induction of those dipole moments through a Kalb-Ramond dipole coupling. This can generate a U Y (1) portal to dark matter and entails the possibility that the U Y (1) gauge field is related to a fundamental vector field for open string interactions. The requirement to explain the observed dark matter abundance relates the coupling scale M in the corresponding low-energy effective U Y (1) portal to the dark matter mass m χ. The corresponding electron recoil cross sections for a single dipole coupled dark matter species are generically below the current limits from XENON, SuperCDMS and SENSEI, except in the GeV mass range if the electric dipole coupling becomes stronger than the magnetic coupling, a 2 e ≥ a 2 m. Furthermore, the recoil cross sections are above the neutrino floor, and the U Y (1) portal can be tested with longer exposure or larger detectors. Discovery of electroweak dipole dark matter would therefore open an interesting window into string phenomenology.

The European Physical Journal C, 2017

A dark sector with a solitonic component provides a means to circumvent the problem of generically low annihilation cross sections of very heavy dark matter particles. At the same time, enhanced annihilation cross sections are necessary for indirect detection of very heavy dark matter components beyond 100 TeV. Non-thermally produced dark matter in this mass range could therefore contribute to the cosmic γ-ray and neutrino flux above 100 TeV, and massive Skyrmions provide an interesting framework for the discussion of these scenarios. Therefore a Higgs portal and a neutrino portal for very heavy Skyrmion dark matter are discussed. The Higgs portal model demonstrates a dark mediator bottleneck, where limitations on particle annihilation cross sections will prevent a signal from the potentially large soliton annihilation cross sections. This problem can be avoided in models where the dark mediator decays. This is illustrated by the neutrino portal for Skyrmion dark matter.

Physical Review Letters, 2009

We show that the addition of real scalars (gauge singlets) to the Standard Model can both ameliorate the little hierarchy problem and provide realistic Dark Matter candidates. To this end, the coupling of the new scalars to the standard Higgs boson must be relatively strong and their mass should be in the 1 − 3 TeV range, while the lowest cutoff of the (unspecified) UV completion must be ∼ > 5 TeV, depending on the Higgs boson mass and the number of singlets present. The existence of the singlets also leads to realistic and surprisingly reach neutrino physics. The resulting light neutrino mass spectrum and mixing angles are consistent with the constraints from the neutrino oscillations.

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012

We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model by the addition of N real scalar gauge singlets ϕ that are candidates for Dark Matter. By collecting theoretical and experimental constraints we determine the space of allowed parameters of the model. The possibility of ameliorating the little hierarchy problem within the multisinglet model is discussed. The Spergel-Steinhardt solution of the Dark Matter density cusp problem is revisited. It is shown that fitting the recent CRESST-II data for Dark Matter nucleus scattering implies that the standard Higgs boson decays predominantly into pairs of Dark Matter scalars. It that case discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC and Tevatron is impossible. The most likely mass of the dark scalars is in the range 15 GeV < ∼ m ϕ < ∼ 50 GeV with BR(h → ϕ ϕ) up to 96%.

Physical Review D, 2015

Motivated by the dark matter and the baryon asymmetry problems, we analyse a complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a Z 2 symmetry (which provides a dark matter candidate). After a detailed two-loop calculation of the renormalization group equations for the new scalar sector, we study the radiative stability of the model up to a high energy scale (with the constraint that the 126 GeV Higgs boson found at the LHC is in the spectrum) and find it requires the existence of a new scalar state mixing with the Higgs with a mass larger than 140 GeV. This bound is not very sensitive to the cutoff scale as long as the latter is larger than 10 10 GeV. We then include all experimental and observational constraints/measurements from collider data, dark matter direct detection experiments and from the Planck satellite and in addition force stability at least up to the GUT scale, to find that the lower bound is raised to about 170 GeV, while the dark matter particle must be heavier than about 50 GeV.

Indian Journal of Physics, 2021

The mass–action equivalence emerges naturally as the consequence of Relativistic Heisenberg Uncertainty (RHU). It changes the structure of relativistic energy–momentum equation that has been underpinning the chosen Lagrangian of the Standard Model, i.e., the Lagrangian which the Higgs mechanism works. The transition from the mass–energy to the mass–action equivalence zone occurs at a certain value of the particle’s wave group velocity $$v_{{\text{g}}}$$ v g indicating the crossing curve between relativistic energy and action. Due to this transition, particles in the Standard Model are not going to gain inertial mass coming from the Higgs mechanism and related Higgs field, but from another mechanism which can break the Lagrangian symmetry of the Standard Model. This mechanism corresponds to Explicit Symmetry Breaking by generating the new type of field, i.e., the X-Higgs -like field and works based on the mass–action equivalence. This field provides the mass for the X Matter as well as Higgs field for Ordinary Matter. The gaining mass of particles due to this mechanism is not related to the form of ordinary relativistic energy, but to the form of relativistic action. It leads us to the new dynamical equation instead of the ordinary Klein–Gordon and Dirac equation. There are two phenomena due to the increasing and decreasing of particle’s velocity in this mechanism. From the lower to the higher velocity, particle gains additional inertial mass from the X Matter, while conversely particle loses its inertial mass. It is reasonable for us to view that the missing inertial mass of particles in the Standard Model is compensated as the Dark Matter. The X-Higgs -like field breaking to be the Dark-Higgs-like and recognized Higgs field can be considered to explain the origin of the Dark and Ordinary Matter from the X Matter.

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011

Very light right-handed (RH) sneutrinos in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can be viable candidates for cold dark matter. We investigate the prospects for their direct detection, addressing their compatibility with the recent signal observed by the CoGeNT detector, and study the implications for Higgs phenomenology. We find that in order to reproduce the correct relic abundance very light RH sneutrinos can annihilate into either a fermionantifermion pair, very light pseudoscalar Higgses or RH neutrinos. If the main annihilation channel is into fermions, we point out that RH sneutrinos could naturally account for the CoGeNT signal. Furthermore, the lightest Higgs has a very large invisible decay width, and in some cases the second-lightest Higgs too. On the other hand, if the RH sneutrino annihilates mostly into pseudoscalars or RH neutrinos the predictions for direct detection are below the current experimental sensitivities and satisfy the constraints set by CDMS and XENON. We also calculate the gamma ray flux from RH sneutrino annihilation in the Galactic centre, including as an interesting new possibility RH neutrinos in the final state. These are produced through a resonance with the Higgs and the resulting flux can exhibit a significant Breit-Wigner enhancement.

The European Physical Journal C, 2018

We present a scale-invariant extension of the Standard model allowing for the Kim-Shifman-Vainstein-Zakharov (KSVZ) axion solution of the strong CP problem in QCD. We add the minimal number of new particles and show that the Peccei-Quinn scalar might be identified with the complex dilaton field. Scale invariance, together with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, is broken spontaneously near the Planck scale before inflation, which is driven by the Standard Model Higgs field. We present a set of general conditions which makes this scenario viable and an explicit example of an effective theory possessing spontaneous breaking of scale invariance. We show that this description works both for inflation and low-energy physics in the electroweak vacuum. This scenario can provide a self-consistent inflationary stage and, at the same time, successfully avoid the cosmological bounds on the axion. Our general predictions are the existence of colored TeV mass fermion and the QCD axion. The latter has all the properties of the KSVZ axion but does not contribute to dark matter. This axion can be searched via its mixing to a photon in an external magnetic field.

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016

The Complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) is the simplest extension that provides scenarios for Higgs pair production with different masses. The model has two interesting phases: the dark matter phase, with a Standard Model-like Higgs boson, a new scalar and a dark matter candidate; and the broken phase, with all three neutral scalars mixing. In the latter phase Higgs decays into a pair of two different Higgs bosons are possible. In this study we analyse Higgs-to-Higgs decays in the framework of singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), with focus on the CxSM. After demonstrating that scenarios with large rates for such chain decays are possible we perform a comparison between the NMSSM and the CxSM. We find that, based on Higgs-to-Higgs decays, the only possibility to distinguish the two models at the LHC run 2 is through final states with two different scalars. This conclusion builds a strong case for searches for final states with two different scalars at the LHC run 2. Finally, we propose a set of benchmark points for the real and complex singlet extensions to be tested at the LHC run 2. They have been chosen such that the discovery prospects of the involved scalars are maximised and they fulfil the dark matter constraints. Furthermore, for some of the points the theory is stable up to high energy scales. For the computation of the decay widths and branching ratios we developed the Fortran code Open Access, c The Authors. Article funded by SCOAP 3 .

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017

If no new physics signals are found, in the coming years, at the Large Hadron Collider Run-2, an increase in precision of the Higgs couplings measurements will shift the discussion to the effects of higher order corrections. In Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories this may become the only tool to probe new physics. Extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with several scalar singlets may address several of its problems, namely to explain dark matter, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, or to improve the stability of the SM up to the Planck scale. In this work we propose a general framework to calculate one loop-corrections to the propagators and to the scalar field vacuum expectation values of BSM models with an arbitrary number of scalar singlets. We then apply our method to a real and to a complex scalar singlet models. We assess the importance of the one-loop radiative corrections first by computing them for a tree level mixing sum constraint, and then for the main Higgs production process gg → H. We conclude that, for the currently allowed parameter space of these models, the corrections can be at most a few percent. Notably, a non-zero correction can survive when dark matter is present, in the SM-like limit of the Higgs couplings to other SM particles.

Physical Review D, 2015

We consider the minimal 3-3-1 model with a heavy scalar sextet and realize, at the tree level, an effective dimension five interaction that contributes to the mass of the charged leptons. We give the scalar mass spectra of the model and analyze under which conditions the fields in the scalar sextet are heavy. With the effective dimension five operator and a triplet we obtain the correct charged lepton masses. In this case the neutrino masses arise by a type I seesaw mechanism and we also show how the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakawaga-Sakata matrix arises. The conditions under which it is possible to have a stable vacuum at tree level are also given.

Physical Review D, 2018

The European Physical Journal C, 2019

We present global analyses of effective Higgs portal dark matter models in the frequentist and Bayesian statistical frameworks. Complementing earlier studies of the scalar Higgs portal, we use GAMBIT to determine the preferred mass and coupling ranges for models with vector, Majorana and Dirac fermion dark matter. We also assess the relative plausibility of all four models using Bayesian model comparison. Our analysis includes up-to-date likelihood functions for the dark matter relic density, invisible Higgs decays, and direct and indirect searches for weaklyinteracting dark matter including the latest XENON1T data. We also account for important uncertainties arising from the local density and velocity distribution of dark matter, nuclear matrix elements relevant to direct detection, and Standard Model masses and couplings. In all Higgs portal models, we find parameter regions that can explain all of dark matter and give a good fit to all data. The case of vector dark matter requires the most tuning and is therefore slightly disfavoured from a Bayesianpoint of view.

Physical Review D, 2010

We consider a scalar dark matter model, the SM4+D, consisting of the standard model with four generations (SM4) and a real gauge-singlet scalar called darkon, D, as the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark-matter (DM) candidate. We explore constraints on the darkon sector of the SM4+D from WIMP DM direct-search experiments, including CDMS II and CoGeNT, and from the decay of a B meson into a kaon plus missing energy. We find that a sizable portion of the darkon parameter space is still compatible with the experimental data. Since the darkon-Higgs interaction may give rise to considerable enhancement of the Higgs invisible decay mode, the existence of the darkon could lead to the weakening or evasion of some of the restrictions on the Higgs mass in the presence of fourth-generation quarks. In addition, it can affect the flavor-changing decays of these new heavy quarks into a lighter quark and the Higgs boson, as the Higgs may subsequently decay invisibly. Therefore we also study these flavor-changing neutral transitions involving the darkon, as well as the corresponding top-quark decay t → cDD, some of which may be observable at the Tevatron or LHC and thus provide additional tests for the SM4+D.

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016

Direct searches for dark matter (DM) by the LUX and PandaX-II Collaborations employing xenon-based detectors have recently come up with the most stringent limits to date on the spin-independent elastic scattering of DM off nucleons. For Higgsportal scalar DM models, the new results have precluded any possibility of accommodating low-mass DM as suggested by the DAMA and CDMS II Si experiments utilizing other target materials, even after invoking isospin-violating DM interactions with nucleons. In the simplest model, SM+D, which is the standard model plus a real singlet scalar named darkon acting as the DM candidate, the LUX and PandaX-II limits rule out DM masses roughly from 4 to 450 GeV, except a small range around the resonance point at half of the Higgs mass where the interaction cross-section is near the neutrino-background floor. In the THDM II+D, which is the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model combined with a darkon, the region excluded in the SM+D by the direct searches can be recovered due to suppression of the DM effective interactions with nucleons at some values of the ratios of Higgs couplings to the up and down quarks, making the interactions significantly isospin-violating. However, in either model, if the 125-GeV Higgs boson is the portal between the dark and SM sectors, DM masses less than 50 GeV or so are already ruled out by the LHC constraint on the Higgs invisible decay. In the THDM II+D, if the heavier CP-even Higgs boson is the portal, theoretical restrictions from perturbativity, vacuum stability, and unitarity requirements turn out to be important instead and exclude much of the region below 100 GeV. For larger DM masses, the THDM II+D has plentiful parameter space that corresponds to interaction cross-sections under the neutrino-background floor and therefore is likely to be beyond the reach of future direct searches without directional sensitivity.

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014

We study collider phenomenology of inert triplet scalar dark matter at the LHC. We discuss possible decay of Higgs boson to dark matter candidate and apply current experimental data for invisible Higgs decay and R γγ to constrain parameter space of our model. We also investigate constraints on dark matter coming from forthcoming measurement, R Zγ and mono-Higgs production. We analytically calculate the annihilation cross section of dark matter candidate into 2γ and Zγ and then use FermiLAT data to put constraints on parameter space of Inert Triplet Model. We found that this limit can be stronger than the constraints provided by LUX experiment for low mass DM.

Cogent Physics, 2015

In this talk, we will review Inert Triplet Model (ITM) which provide candidate for dark matter (DM) particles. Then we study possible decays of Higgs boson to DM candidate and apply current experimental data for invisible Higgs decay to constrain parameter space of ITM. We also consider indirect search for DM and use FermiLAT data to put constraints on parameter space. Ultimately we compare this limit with constraints provided by LUX experiment for low mass DM and invisible Higgs decay.

Physical Review D, 2022

We propose a new out-of-equilibrium production mechanism of light dark matter: resonance scanning. If the dark matter mass evolved in the early Universe, resonant production may have occurred for a wide range of light dark matter masses today. We show that the dark matter relic abundance may be produced through the Higgs portal, in a manner consistent with current experimental constraints.