Charming Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper explores a Dark Minimal Flavour Violation model where dark matter particles interact with right-handed up-type quarks through a heavy scalar, using MCMC to constrain the model's parameter space.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of a DMFV model with detailed parameter space constraints derived from extensive data and MCMC methods.

Findings

Strong restrictions on dark matter model parameters

Identification of viable regions in parameter space

Constraints from multiple experimental data sets

Abstract

We have considered a model of Dark Minimal Flavour Violation (DMFV), in which a triplet of dark matter particles couple to right-handed up-type quarks via a heavy colour-charged scalar mediator. By studying a large spectrum of possible constraints, and assessing the entire parameter space using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), we can place strong restrictions on the allowed parameter space for dark matter models of this type.