Collider probes of real triplet scalar dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Yong Du¹  Giovanna Cottin²  Cheng-Wei Chiang³  Kaori Fuyuto⁴  Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf⁵ 

[1] Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA;Departamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Diagonal Las Torres, 2640, Santiago, Chile;Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna, 4860, Santiago, Chile;Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan;Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, 11529, Taipei, Taiwan;Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan;Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA;Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China;Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA;Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA;

关键词: Beyond Standard Model;    Dark matter;    Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments);   

DOI  :  10.1007/JHEP01(2021)198

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We study discovery prospects for a real triplet extension of the Standard Model scalar sector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a possible future 100 TeV pp collider. We focus on the scenario in which the neutral triplet scalar is stable and contributes to the dark matter relic density. When produced in pp collisions, the charged triplet scalar decays to the neutral component plus a soft pion or soft lepton pair, yielding a disappearing charged track in the detector. We recast current 13 TeV LHC searches for disappearing tracks, and find that the LHC presently excludes a real triplet scalar lighter than 248 (275) GeV, for a mass splitting of 172 (160) MeV with ℒ = 36 fb−1. The reach can extend to 497 (520) GeV with the collection of 3000 fb−1. We extrapolate the 13 TeV analysis to a prospective 100 TeV pp collider, and find that a ∼ 3 TeV triplet scalar could be discoverable with ℒ = 30 ab−1, depending on the degree to which pile up effects are under control. We also investigate the dark matter candidate in our model and corresponding present and prospective constraints from dark matter direct detection. We find that currently XENON1T can exclude a real triplet dark matter lighter than ∼ 3 TeV for a Higgs portal coupling of order one or larger, and the future XENON20T will cover almost the entire dark matter viable parameter space except for vanishingly small portal coupling.

【 授权许可】

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