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roman pasechnik

Roman Pasechnik

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roman pasechnik

Composite scalar dark matter from vector-like SU (2) confinement

Author

  • Roman Pasechnik
  • Vitaly Beylin
  • Vladimir Kuksa
  • Grigory Vereshkov

Summary, in English

A toy-model with SU(2)TC dynamics confined at high scales ΛTC > 100GeV enables to construct Dirac UV completion from the original chiral multiplets predicting a vector-like nature of their weak interactions consistent with electroweak precision tests. In this work, we investigate a potential of the lightest scalar baryon-like (T-baryon) state B0 = UD with mass mB ≥ 1TeV predicted by the simplest two-flavor vector-like confinement model as a dark matter (DM) candidate. We show that two different scenarios with the T-baryon relic abundance formation before and after the electroweak (EW) phase transition epoch lead to symmetric (or mixed) and asymmetric DM, respectively. Such a DM candidate evades existing direct DM detection constraints since its vector coupling to Z boson absents at tree level, while one-loop gauge boson mediated contribution is shown to be vanishingly small close to the threshold. The dominating spin-independent (SI) T-baryon-nucleon scattering goes via tree-level Higgs boson exchange in the t-channel. The corresponding bound on the effective T-baryon-Higgs coupling has been extracted from the recent LUX data and turns out to be consistent with naive expectations from the light technipion case mπ <ΛTC. The latter provides the most stringent phenomenological constraint on strongly-coupled SU(2)TC dynamics so far. Future prospects for direct and indirect scalar T-baryon DM searches in astrophysics as well as in collider measurements have been discussed.

Department/s

  • Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2016-03-20

Language

English

Publication/Series

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volume

31

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • dark matter annihilation
  • Dark matter candidates
  • dark matter direct detection
  • low-energy effective field theories
  • technibaryon
  • technicolor

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0217-751X