# Predestined Dark Matter in Gauge Extensions of the Standard Model

## TL;DR

This paper explores how gauge extensions of the Standard Model naturally include or can accommodate dark matter candidates through minimal fermion and scalar multiplets, without requiring additional symmetries.

## Contribution

It introduces the concept of predestined dark matter within gauge extensions, identifying minimal multiplets that inherently contain or can host dark matter particles.

## Key findings

- Identification of minimal multiplets containing dark matter candidates
- Examples of new predestined dark matter models
- Dark matter candidates can arise without extra symmetries

## Abstract

In any gauge extension of the standard model (SM) of quarks and leptons, there is a minimal set of fermion and scalar multiplets which encompasses all the particles and interactions of the SM. Included within this set, there may be a suitable dark-matter candidate. If not, one may still exist from the judicious addition of a simple fermion or scalar multiplet without any imposed symmetry. Some new examples of such predestined dark matter are discussed.