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Thomas Hambye JHEP01(2009)028 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/028

Hidden vector dark matter

Thomas Hambye

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We show that dark matter could be made of massive gauge bosons whose stability doesn't require to impose by hand any discrete or global symmetry. Stability of gauge bosons can be guaranteed by the custodial symmetry associated to the gauge symmetry and particle content of the model. The particle content we consider to this end is based on a hidden sector made of a vector multiplet associated to a non-abelian gauge group and of a scalar multiplet charged under this gauge group. The hidden sector interacts with the Standard Model particles through the Higgs portal quartic scalar interaction in such a way that the gauge bosons behave as thermal WIMPS. This can lead easily to the observed dark matter relic density in agreement with the other various constraints, and can be tested experimentally in a large fraction of the parameter space. In this model the dark matter direct detection rate and the annihilation cross section can decouple if the Higgs portal interaction is weak.

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Gauge Symmetry

Global Symmetries

 

E-print Number: 0811.0172

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PACS

95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)

11.30.Fs Global symmetries (e.g., baryon number, lepton number)

11.15.-q Gauge field theories

14.70.Hp Z bosons

11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries

14.80.Bn Standard-model Higgs bosons

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 01 (January 2009)

Received 20 November 2008, accepted for publication 15 December 2008

Published 12 January 2009



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