Phenomenological signatures of mixed complex scalar WIMP dark matter

TL;DR

This paper explores phenomenological signatures of mixed complex scalar WIMP dark matter models, highlighting viable mass ranges and potential detection methods at future colliders and dark matter experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a model with an extended scalar sector inspired by supersymmetry, analyzing its dark matter viability and experimental signatures.

Findings

Scalar WIMP mass can be compatible with dark matter abundance if it is half the Higgs mass or above 100 GeV.

Adding a Majorana fermion mediator allows scalar WIMP masses below 5 GeV to be consistent with observations.

Future experiments can probe the parameter space of these models.

Abstract

We discuss phenomenological aspects of models whose scalar sector is extended by an isospin doublet scalar and a complex singlet scalar as an effective theory of supersymmetric models with mixed sneutrinos. In such models, the lighter of the mixed neutral scalars can become a viable dark matter candidate by imposing a U(1) symmetry. We find that the thermal WIMP scenario is consistent with the cosmological dark matter abundance when the mass of the scalar is half of that of the discovered Higgs boson or larger than around 100 GeV. We also point out that, with an additional isospin singlet Majorana fermion mediator, even the mass of the scalar WIMP less than around 5 GeV is compatible with the observed dark matter abundance. We show that such cosmologically allowed regions can be explored at future collider experiments and dark matter detections.