2015/05/14 by Fady Bishara, Admir Greljo, Jernej F. Kamenik +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Flavor #Gauge symmetry #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Mathematics #Multiplet #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Scalar (mathematics) #Spectral line #Yukawa potential #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep12(2015)130
46 pages, 16 figures
arxiv created 2015/05/14 · openalex publication_date 2015/12/01 · arxiv updated 2016/01/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We investigate the phenomenology of flavored dark matter (DM). DM stability is guaranteed by an accidental Z3 symmetry, a subgroup of the standard model (SM) flavor group that is not broken by the SM Yukawa interactions. We consider an explicit realization where the quark part of the SM flavor group is fully gauged. If the dominant interactions between DM and visible sector are through flavor gauge bosons, as we show for Dirac fermion flavored DM, then the DM mass is bounded between roughly 0.5 TeV and 5 TeV if the DM multiplet mass is split only radiatively. In general, however, no such relation exists. We demonstrate this using scalar flavored DM where the main interaction with the SM is through the Higgs portal. For both cases we derive constraints from flavor, cosmology, direct and indirect DM detection, and collider searches.