Viable dark matter via radiative symmetry breaking in a scalar singlet Higgs portal extension of the standard model.
We consider the generation of dark matter mass via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking in an extension of the conformal standard model containing a singlet scalar field with a Higgs portal interaction. Generating the mass from a sequential process of radiative electroweak symmetry breaking followed by a conventional Higgs mechanism can account for less than 35% of the cosmological dark matter abundance for dark matter mass M(s)>80 GeV. However, in a dynamical approach where both Higgs and scalar singlet masses are generated via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, we obtain much higher levels of dark matter abundance. At one-loop level we find abundances of 10%-100% with 106 GeV<M(s)<120 GeV. However, when the higher-order effects needed for consistency with a 125 GeV Higgs mass are estimated, the abundance becomes 10%-80% for 80 GeV<M(s)<96 GeV, representing a significant decrease in the dark matter mass. The dynamical approach also predicts a small scalar-singlet self-coupling, providing a natural explanation for the astrophysical observations that place upper bounds on dark matter self-interaction. The predictions in all three approaches are within the M(s)>80 GeV detection region of the next generation XENON experiment.
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.
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Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.
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Wang
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
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Contreras
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
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