Secluded Scalar Dark Matter and the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

TL;DR

This paper explores a secluded scalar dark matter model with leptophilic interactions that can account for the muon anomalous magnetic moment and satisfy relic density and direct detection constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a novel secluded scalar dark matter model with leptophilic interactions and analyzes its viability in explaining the muon g-2 anomaly.

Findings

Viable parameter space for sub-10 GeV dark matter consistent with relic density.

Model can explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment.

Constraints from direct detection and lepton colliders are applied.

Abstract

We consider a dark matter model with a singlet scalar, $\chi$, as our dark matter (DM) candidate which is secluded from the Standard Model (SM) and annihilates to the singlet scalar, $\phi$, via a contact interaction. The singlet scalar, $\phi$, has a leptophilic interaction with the SM leptons and may decay leptonically at tree level, and decays into a pair of photons at loop level. The focus in this work is to consider DM masses below 10 GeV. It is found a viable secluded region in the parameter space after imposing the observed relic density. There is a one-loop interaction between scalar dark matter and the atomic electron in this model. We then apply the available direct detection bounds from Xenon10, Xenon1T, and DarkSide on the DM-electron elastic scattering cross section. While the model can explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment, we put bounds from current and future lepton collider experiments.