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# Complementarity of DM searches in a consistent simplified model: the case of Z ′

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Published in Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016, vol. 1610, p. 071-109
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Abstract We analyze the constraints from direct and indirect detection on fermionic Majorana Dark Matter (DM). Because the interaction with the Standard Model (SM) particles is spin-dependent, a priori the constraints that one gets from neutrino telescopes, the LHC, direct and indirect detection experiments are comparable. We study the complementarity of these searches in a particular example, in which a heavy Z ′ mediates the interactions between the SM and the DM. We find that for heavy dark matter indirect detection provides the strongest bounds on this scenario, while IceCube bounds are typically stronger than those from direct detection. The LHC constraints are dominant for smaller dark matter masses. These light masses are less motivated by thermal relic abundance considerations. We show that the dominant annihilation channels of the light DM in the Sun and the Galactic Center are either b b ¯ $$b\overline{b}$$ or t t ¯ $$t\overline{t}$$ , while the heavy DM annihilation is completely dominated by Zh channel. The latter produces a hard neutrino spectrum which has not been previously analyzed. We study the neutrino spectrum yielded by DM and recast IceCube constraints to allow proper comparison with constraints from direct and indirect detection experiments and LHC exclusions.
Keywords Beyond Standard ModelCosmology of Theories beyond the SM
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arXiv: 1605.06513
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JACQUES, Thomas et al. Complementarity of DM searches in a consistent simplified model: the case of Z ′. In: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, vol. 1610, p. 071-109. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:88706

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