IDM benchmarks for the LHC and future colliders

TL;DR

This paper provides detailed cross-section benchmarks for the Inert Doublet Model across current and future collider energies, aiding experimental searches for dark matter candidates.

Contribution

It introduces comprehensive cross-section expectations for the IDM at multiple collider energies, incorporating current dark matter constraints and collider limits.

Findings

Cross sections calculated for 13, 27, 100 TeV proton colliders.

Benchmark scenarios consistent with dark matter constraints.

Kinematic features identified for future collider exploration.

Abstract

We present cross-section expectations for various processes and collider options, for benchmark scenarios of the Inert Doublet Model, a Two Higgs Doublet Model with a dark matter candidate. The proposed scenarios are consistent with current dark matter constraints, including the most recent bounds from the XENON1T experiment and relic density, as well as with known collider and low-energy limits. These benchmarks, chosen in earlier work for studies at $e^+e^-$ colliders, exhibit a variety of kinematic features that should be explored at current and future runs of the LHC. We provide cross sections for all relevant production processes at 13 TeV, 27 TeV and 100 TeV proton collider, as well as for a possible 10 TeV and 30 TeV muon collider.