Flavored Dark Matter: A Review

TL;DR

This review paper summarizes the current experimental constraints, theoretical considerations, and collider phenomenology related to flavored dark matter, emphasizing minimal flavor violation principles.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of flavored dark matter models, integrating experimental data, flavor principles, and collider implications in a single review.

Findings

Experimental constraints limit flavored dark matter models.

Minimal flavor violation is a key principle in model construction.

Flavored dark matter has distinctive collider signatures.

Abstract

The current status of flavored dark matter is reviewed. We discuss the main experimental constraints on models of flavored dark matter and survey some possible considerations which are relevant for the constructions of models. We then review the application of existing flavor principles to dark matter, with an emphasis on minimal flavor violation, and discuss implications of flavored dark matter on collider phenomenology.