A model of pseudo-Nambu?Goldstone dark matter from a softly broken <i>SU</i>(2) global symmetry with a <i>U</i>(1) gauge symmetry
A model of pseudo-Nambu?Goldstone dark matter from a softly broken <i>SU</i>(2) global symmetry with a <i>U</i>(1) gauge symmetry
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来自具有 <i>U</i>(1) 规范对称性的软破缺 <i>SU</i>(2) 全局对称性的伪 Nambu?Goldstone 暗物质模型
DOI:
10.1093/ptep/ptad021
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Hamada Yu
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作者:
Abe Tomohiro;Hamada Yu
A model of the pseudo-Nambu–Goldstone (pNG) dark matter (DM) is proposed. We assume that there is anSU(2)gglobal symmetry and aU(1)Xgauge symmetry in the dark sector, and they are spontaneously broken into aU(1)Dglobal symmetry after a scalar field develops a vacuum expectation value. We add a soft symmetry-breaking term that breaks theSU(2)gglobal symmetry into theU(1)gglobal symmetry explicitly. Our model predicts a stable complex pNG particle under theU(1)Dglobal symmetry. One of the virtues of the pNG DM models is that the models can explain the current null results of the direct detection experiments. The small momentum transfer suppresses the scattering amplitudes thanks to the low-energy behavior of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. In our model, the soft symmetry-breaking term is uniquely determined. This is the advantage of our model compared to some earlier works in which some soft symmetry-breaking terms cannot be forbidden but are simply assumed to be absent to avoid the constraints from the direct detection experiments. We calculate the thermal relic abundance of the pNG DM and find that the model can explain the measured value of the DM energy density under some constraints from perturbative unitarity.