302 research outputs found
3.5-keV X-ray line from nearly-degenerate WIMP dark matter decays
The unidentified emission line at the energy of 3.5~keV observed in
X-rays from galaxy clusters may originate from a process involving a dark
matter particle. On the other hand, a weakly interacting massive particle
(WIMP) has been an attractive dark matter candidate, due to its well-understood
thermal production mechanism and its connection to physics at the TeV scale. In
this paper, we pursue the possibility that the 3.5-keV X-ray arises from a late
time decay of a WIMP dark matter into another WIMP dark matter, both of which
have the mass of ~GeV and whose mass splitting is about 3.5~keV. We
focus on the simplest case where there are two Majorana dark matter particles
and two charged scalars that couple with a standard model matter particle. By
assuming a hierarchical structure in the couplings of the two dark matter
particles and two charged scalars, it is possible to explain the 3.5-keV line
and realize the WIMP dark matter scenario at the same time. Since the effective
coupling of the two different Majorana dark matter particles and one photon
violates CP symmetry, the model always contains a new source of CP violation,
so the model's connection to the physics of electric dipole moments is
discussed. The model's peculiar signatures at the LHC are also studied. We show
the prospect of detecting the charged scalars through a detailed collider
simulation
Electroweak Phase Transition in Georgi-Machacek Model
The Georgi-Machacek model extends the standard model Higgs sector by adding
two isospin triplet scalar fields and imposing global SU(2) symmetry on
them. A feature of the model is that the triplets can acquire a large vacuum
expectation value without conflicting with the current experimental bound on
the parameter. We investigate the electroweak phase transition in the
Georgi-Machacek model by evaluating the finite-temperature effective potential
of the Higgs sector. The electroweak phase transition can be sufficiently
strong in a large parameter space when the triplets acquire a vacuum
expectation value of GeV, opening a possibility to realize successful
electroweak baryogenesis
Anomaly and Neutron EDM in model with Charge Symmetry
The Standard Model prediction for based on recent
lattice QCD results exhibits a tension with the experimental data. We solve
this tension through gauge boson exchange in the model with `charge symmetry', whose theoretical
motivation is to attribute the chiral structure of the Standard Model to the
spontaneous breaking of gauge group and charge
symmetry. We show that TeV is required to account for the
anomaly in this model. Next, we make a prediction for the
neutron EDM in the same model and study a correlation between
and the neutron EDM. We confirm that the model can solve
the anomaly without conflicting the current bound on the
neutron EDM, and further reveal that almost all parameter regions in which the
anomaly is explained will be covered by future neutron EDM
searches, which leads us to anticipate the discovery of the neutron EDM.Comment: 35 pages, 6 figures. Version accepted for publication in JHE
Model for the Lepton Flavor Structure and the Strong Problem
We present a model with lepton flavor symmetry which
explains the origin of the lepton flavor structure and also solves the strong
problem. Standard model gauge singlet fields, so-called "flavons", charged
under the symmetry are introduced and are coupled with
the lepton and the Higgs sectors. The flavon vacuum expectation values (VEVs)
trigger spontaneous breaking of the symmetry. The
breaking pattern of the accounts for the tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing
and the deviation from it due to the non-zero angle, and the
breaking of the gives rise to a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson,
axion, whose VEV cancels the QCD term. We investigate the breaking of
the symmetry through an analysis on the scalar potential
and further discuss the properties of the axion in the model, including its
decay constant, mass and coupling with photons. It is shown that the axion
decay constant is related with the right-handed neutrino mass through the
flavon VEVs. Experimental constraints on the axion and their implications are
also studied.Comment: 13 pages, final version, minor modification
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