Dark Matter in the Alternative Left Right Model

TL;DR

This paper explores the natural emergence of dark matter candidates in the Alternative Left-Right Model, analyzing their detection prospects at the LHC and their compatibility with relic density and detection bounds.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dark matter framework within the Alternative Left-Right Model, including fermionic and bosonic candidates, and assesses their experimental signatures and parameter space constraints.

Findings

Dark matter candidates can be fermionic or bosonic.

LHC signals for bosonic candidates involve exotic d' quarks.

Fermionic candidates suggest charged Higgs bosons in the TeV range.

Abstract

The Alternative Left-Right Model is an attractive variation of the usual Left-Right Symmetric Model because it avoids flavour-changing neutral currents, thus allowing the additional Higgs bosons in the model to be light. We show here that the model predicts several dark matter candidates naturally, through introduction of an $R$-parity similar to the one in supersymmetry, under which some of the new particles are odd, while all the SM particles are even. Dark matter candidates can be fermionic or bosonic. We present a comprehensive investigation of all possibilities. We analyze and restrict the parameter space where relic density, direct and indirect detection bounds are satisfied, and investigate the possibility of observing fermionic and bosonic dark matter signals at the LHC. Both the bosonic and fermionic candidates provide promising signals, the first in LHC at 300 fb$^{-1}$, the second at higher luminosity, 3000 fb$^{-1}$. Signals from bosonic candidates are indicative of the presence of exotic $d^\prime$ quarks, while fermionic candidates imply the existence of charged Higgs bosons, all with masses in the TeV region.