http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06824
We study a renormalizable model of Dirac fermion dark matter (DM) that communicates with the Standard Model (SM) through a pair of mediators — one scalar, one fermion — in the representation $(\boldsymbol{6},\boldsymbol{1}, \tfrac{4}{3})$ of the SM gauge group $\text{SU}(3){\text{c}} \times \text{SU}(2){\text{L}} \times \text{U}(1)Y$. While such assignments preclude direct coupling of the dark matter to the Standard Model at tree level, we examine the many effective operators generated at one-loop order when the mediators are heavy, and find that they are often phenomenologically relevant. We reinterpret dijet and pair-produced resonance and $\text{jets} + E{\text{T}}^{\text{miss}}$ searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in order to constrain the mediator sector, and we examine an array of DM constraints ranging from the observed relic density $\Omega_{\chi} h^2_{\text{Planck}}$ to indirect and direct searches for dark matter. Tree-level annihilation, available for DM masses starting at the TeV scale, is required in order to produce $\Omega_{\chi} h^2_{\text{Planck}}$ through freeze-out, but loops — led by the dimension-five DM magnetic dipole moment — are nonetheless able to produce signals large enough to be constrained, particularly by the XENON1T experiment. In some benchmarks, we find a fair amount of parameter space left open by experiment and compatible with freeze-out. In other scenarios, however, the open space is quite small, suggesting a need for further model-building and/or non-standard cosmologies.
L. Carpenter, T. Murphy and T. Tait
Tue, 27 Sep 22
72/89
Comments: 37 pages, 19 figures. Updated to resemble JHEP Version of Record