Tuning towards the edge of a dark abyss: Implications of a tuning paradigm on the hierarchy between the weak and dark matter scales

TL;DR

This paper explores how tuning the scalar potential boundary can explain the hierarchy between the electroweak and dark matter scales, proposing a model where dark sector dynamics generate the electroweak scale and include dark matter.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model linking tuning at the scalar potential boundary to the generation of the electroweak scale from a dark sector, including a dark matter candidate.

Findings

Demonstrates a viable dark matter candidate within the dark sector

Shows the potential for scalar potential tuning to explain scale hierarchies

Provides a proof of principle model connecting dark sector dynamics to electroweak symmetry breaking

Abstract

It has recently been suggested that tuning towards the boundary of the positivity domain of the scalar potential may explain the separation between the electroweak scale and the unification scale in a grand unified theory. Here we explore the possibility that the same type of tuning might account for the generation of the electroweak scale from a much lighter dynamically generated scale in a dark sector. We present a model that realizes this idea and provides a proof of principle that the same dark sector can include a viable dark matter candidate.