Doubly Coexisting Dark Matter Candidates in an Extended Seesaw Model

TL;DR

This paper explores a model with two coexisting dark matter particles, analyzing their interactions, relic abundance, detection prospects, and implications for collider searches, extending previous seesaw models with new symmetries and particles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel extended seesaw model with two coexisting dark matter candidates stabilized by a discrete symmetry, and studies their phenomenological implications.

Findings

Large annihilation cross sections can reduce relic abundance.

Dark matter detection via nuclear scattering is feasible.

Invisible Higgs decay at LHC can probe the model.

Abstract

We examine how a scenario of coexisting two-particle dark mater can be realized in the extended seesaw model, which we have proposed previously to accommodate small neutrino masses and low scale leptogenesis with an introduction of singlet Majorana neutrino $S$ and singlet scalar $\phi$. We now impose the discrete symmetry $Z_2 \times Z_2^{\prime}$ and introduce new renormalizable interaction terms with a new heavy singlet scalar particle $\Phi$ so as for previously introduced $S$ and $\phi$ to be doubly coexisting dark matter candidates. Depending on the mass spectrum of the two dark matter candidates, the annihilation process either $SS\longrightarrow \phi \phi$ or $\phi\phi\longrightarrow SS$ is of particular interest because the annihilation cross sections for the processes can be so large that the relic abundance of decaying particle should get lowered, which in turn makes the constraints on its parameter space relaxed, compared with the case of one and only one dark matter candidate. We discuss the implications of the dark matter detection through the scattering off the nucleus of the detecting material on our scenarios for dark matter candidates. We also study the implications for the search of invisible Higgs decay at LHC, which may serve as a probe of our scenario for dark matter.