Dark matter and global symmetries

2015/08/31 by Yann Mambrini, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz · 112 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark matter #Higgs boson #Light dark matter #Neutrino #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Planck #Scalar field dark matter #Theoretical physics #Warm dark matter #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.07.076

published in Physics Letters B 760, 807-815 (Elsevier BV) · Matches Published version in Phys.Lett. B760 (2016) 807-815

openalex publication_date 2016/08/04 · arxiv created 2016/11/02 · arxiv updated 2016/11/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

General considerations in general relativity and quantum mechanics rule out\nglobal symmetries in the context of any consistent theory of quantum gravity.\nMotivated by this, we derive stringent and robust bounds from gamma-ray, X-ray,\ncosmic ray, neutrino and CMB data on models that invoke global symmetries to\nstabilize the dark matter particle. Under realistic assumptions we are able to\nrule out fermionic, vector, and scalar dark matter candidates across a broad\nmass range (keV-TeV), including the WIMP regime. We then specialize our\nanalysis and apply our bounds to specific models such as the Two-Higgs-Doublet,\nLeft-Right, Singlet Fermionic, Zee-Babu, 3-3-1 and Radiative See-Saw models. In\nthe supplemental material we derive robust, updated model-independent limits on\nthe dark matter lifetime.

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