159 research outputs found
High Energy Positrons and Gamma Radiation from Decaying Constituents of a two-component Dark Atom Model
We study a two component dark matter candidate inspired by the Minimal
Walking Technicolor model. Dark matter consists of a dominant SIMP-like dark
atom component made of bound states between primordial helium nuclei and a
doubly charged technilepton, and a small WIMP-like component made of another
dark atom bound state between a doubly charged technibaryon and a technilepton.
This scenario is consistent with direct search experimental findings because
the dominant SIMP component interacts too strongly to reach the depths of
current detectors with sufficient energy to recoil and the WIMP-like component
is too small to cause significant amount of events. In this context a
metastable technibaryon that decays to , and can in principle explain the observed positron excess by AMS-02 and
PAMELA, while being consistent with the photon flux observed by FERMI/LAT. We
scan the parameters of the model and we find the best possible fit to the
latest experimental data. We find that there is a small range of parameter
space that this scenario can be realised under certain conditions regarding the
cosmic ray propagation and the final state radiation. This range of parameters
fall inside the region where the current run of LHC can probe, and therefore it
will soon be possible to either verify or exclude conclusively this model of
dark matter.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, invited contribution to the special issue
"Composite dark matter" of International Journal of Modern Physics D. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.365
Photons in gapless color-flavor-locked quark matter
We calculate the Debye and Meissner masses of a gauge boson in a material
consisting of two species of massless fermions that form a condensate of Cooper
pairs. We perform the calculation as a function of temperature, for the cases
of neutral Cooper pairs and charged Cooper pairs, and for a range of parameters
including gapped quaisparticles, and ungapped quasiparticles with both
quadratic and linear dispersion relations at low energy.
Our results are relevant to the behavior of photons and gluons in the gapless
color-flavor-locked phase of quark matter. We find that the photon's Meissner
mass vanishes, and the Debye mass shows a non-monotonic temperature dependence,
and at temperatures of order the pairing gap it drops to a minimum value of
order sqrt(alpha) times the quark chemical potential. We confirm previous
claims that at zero temperature an imaginary Meissner mass can arise from a
charged gapless condensate, and we find that at finite temperature this can
also occur for a gapped condensate.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX; expanded discussion of temperature dependenc
Gapless phases of color-superconducting matter
We discuss gapless color superconductivity for neutral quark matter in beta
equilibrium at zero as well as at nonzero temperature. Basic properties of
gapless superconductors are reviewed. The current progress and the remaining
problems in the understanding of the phase diagram of strange quark matter are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. Plenary talk at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2004
(SQM2004), Cape Town, South Africa, 15-20 September 2004. Minor correction
Strong Interactive Massive Particles from a Strong Coupled Theory
Minimal walking technicolor models can provide a nontrivial solution for
cosmological dark matter, if the lightest technibaryon is doubly charged.
Technibaryon asymmetry generated in the early Universe is related to baryon
asymmetry and it is possible to create excess of techniparticles with charge
(-2). These excessive techniparticles are all captured by , creating
\emph{techni-O-helium} ``atoms'', as soon as is formed in Big
Bang Nucleosynthesis. The interaction of techni-O-helium with nuclei opens new
paths to the creation of heavy nuclei in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Due to the
large mass of technibaryons, the ``atomic'' gas decouples from the
baryonic matter and plays the role of dark matter in large scale structure
formation, while structures in small scales are suppressed. Nuclear
interactions with matter slow down cosmic techni-O-helium in Earth below the
threshold of underground dark matter detectors, thus escaping severe CDMS
constraints. On the other hand, these nuclear interactions are not sufficiently
strong to exclude this form of Strongly Interactive Massive Particles by
constraints from the XQC experiment. Experimental tests of this hypothesis are
possible in search for in balloon-borne experiments (or on the ground)
and for its charged techniparticle constituents in cosmic rays and
accelerators. The ``atoms'' can cause cold nuclear transformations in
matter and might form anomalous isotopes, offering possible ways to exclude (or
prove?) their existence.Comment: 41 pages, 4 figure
Muon Flux Limits for Majorana Dark Matter Particles
We analyze the effects of capture of dark matter (DM) particles, with
successive annihilations, predicted in the minimal walking technicolor model
(MWT) by the Sun and the Earth. We show that the Super-Kamiokande (SK) upper
limit on excessive muon flux disfavors the mass interval between 100-200 GeV
for MWT DM with a suppressed Standard Model interaction (due to a mixing
angle), and the mass interval between 0-1500 GeV for MWT DM without such
suppression, upon making the standard assumption about the value of the local
DM distribution. In the first case, the exclusion interval is found to be very
sensitive to the DM distribution parameters and can vanish at the extreme of
the acceptable values.Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures. The revised version has minor addition (without
change of the result) as the following: 1) Comparison of our estimations with
analogous previous ones is included in the Figure 7; a paragraph regarding it
was added in Discussion. 2) The Introduction, Acknowledgements and References
have been a little extende
Linear confinement without dilaton in bottom-up holography for walking technicolour
In PRD78(2008)055005 [arXiv:0805.1503 [hep-ph]] and PRD79(2009)075004
[arXiv:0809.1324 [hep-ph]], we constructed a holographic description of walking
technicolour theories using both a hard- and a soft-wall model. Here, we show
that the dilaton field becomes phenomenologically irrelevant for the spectrum
of spin-one resonances once a term is included in the Lagrangian that mixes the
Goldstone bosons and the longitudinal components of the axial vector mesons. We
show how this mixing affects our previous results and we make predictions about
how this description of technicolour can be tested.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Asymmetric Origin for Gravitino Relic Density in the Hybrid Gravity-Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
We propose the hybrid gravity-gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking where the
gravitino mass is about several GeV. The strong constraints on supersymmetry
viable parameter space from the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC can be
relaxed due to the heavy colored supersymmetric particles, and it is consistent
with null results in the dark matter (DM) direct search experiments such as
XENON100. In particular, the possible maximal flavor and CP violations from the
relatively small gravity mediation may naturally account for the recent LHCb
anomaly. In addition, because the gravitino mass is around the asymmetric DM
mass, we propose the asymmetric origin of the gravitino relic density and solve
the cosmological coincident problem on the DM and baryon densities \Omega_{\rm
DM}:\Omega_{B}\approx 5:1. The gravitino relic density arises from asymmetric
metastable particle (AMP) late decay. However, we show that there is no AMP
candidate in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (SM) due to the robust
gaugino/Higgsino mediated wash-out effects. Interestingly, AMP can be realized
in the well motivated supersymmetric SMs with vector-like particles or
continuous U(1)_R symmetry. Especially, the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass
can be lifted in the supersymmetric SMs with vector-like particles.Comment: RevTex4, 21 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections, JHEP versio
Asymmetric WIMP dark matter
In existing dark matter models with global symmetries the relic abundance of
dark matter is either equal to that of anti-dark matter (thermal WIMP), or
vastly larger, with essentially no remaining anti-dark matter (asymmetric dark
matter). By exploring the consequences of a primordial asymmetry on the coupled
dark matter and anti-dark matter Boltzmann equations we find large regions of
parameter space that interpolate between these two extremes. Interestingly,
this new asymmetric WIMP framework can accommodate a wide range of dark matter
masses and annihilation cross sections. The present-day dark matter population
is typically asymmetric, but only weakly so, such that indirect signals of dark
matter annihilation are not completely suppressed. We apply our results to
existing models, noting that upcoming direct detection experiments will
constrain a large region of the relevant parameter space.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures, updated references, updated XENON100 bounds,
typo in figure caption correcte
Resolution of dark matter problem in f(T) gravity
In this paper, we attempt to resolve the dark matter problem in f(T) gravity.
Specifically, from our model we successfully obtain the flat rotation curves of
galaxies containing dark matter. Further, we obtain the density profile of dark
matter in galaxies. Comparison of our analytical results shows that our
torsion-based toy model for dark matter is in good agreement with empirical
data-based models. It shows that we can address the dark matter as an effect of
torsion of the space.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Invisible Higgs and Dark Matter
We investigate the possibility that a massive weakly interacting fermion
simultaneously provides for a dominant component of the dark matter relic
density and an invisible decay width of the Higgs boson at the LHC. As a
concrete model realizing such dynamics we consider the minimal walking
technicolor, although our results apply more generally. Taking into account the
constraints from the electroweak precision measurements and current direct
searches for dark matter particles, we find that such scenario is heavily
constrained, and large portions of the parameter space are excluded.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0912.229
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