Isospin violating dark matter being asymmetric

TL;DR

This paper explores isospin violating dark matter models, proposing an asymmetric scenario to reconcile experimental results with cosmological bounds, and discusses collider and Higgs implications.

Contribution

It introduces an asymmetric IVDM scenario that aligns with cosmological constraints and explores collider and Higgs physics implications.

Findings

Dark matter annihilation cross section exceeds astrophysical bounds in simple models.

Asymmetry reduces anti-dark matter relic density, avoiding indirect detection constraints.

Models are consistent with collider and Higgs physics constraints.

Abstract

The isospin violating dark matter (IVDM) scenario offers an interesting possibility to reconcile conflicting results among direct dark matter search experiments for a mass range around 10 GeV. We consider two simple renormalizable IVDM models with a complex scalar dark matter and a Dirac fermion dark matter, respectively, whose stability is ensured by the conservation of "dark matter number". Although both models successfully work as the IVDM scenario with destructive interference between effective couplings to proton and neutron, the dark matter annihilation cross section is found to exceed the cosmological/astrophysical upper bounds. Then, we propose a simple scenario to reconcile the IVDM scenario with the cosmological/astrophysical bounds, namely, the IVDM being asymmetric. Assuming a suitable amount of dark matter asymmetry has been generated in the early Universe, the annihilation cross section beyond the cosmological/astrophysical upper bound nicely works to dramatically reduce the anti-dark matter relic density and as a result, the constraints from dark matter indirect searches are avoided. We also discuss collider experimental constraints on the models and an implication to Higgs boson physics.