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We investigate the phenomenology of flavored dark matter (DM). DM stability is guaranteed by an accidental \( {\mathcal{Z}}_3 \) symmetry, a subgroup of the standard model (SM) flavor group that is not broken by the SM Yukawa interactions. We consider an explicit realization where the quark part of the SM flavor group is fully gauged. If the dominant interactions between DM and visible sector are through flavor gauge bosons, as we show for Dirac fermion flavored DM, then the DM mass is bounded between roughly 0.5 TeV and 5 TeV if the DM multiplet mass is split only radiatively. In general, however, no such relation exists. We demonstrate this using scalar flavored DM where the main interaction with the SM is through the Higgs portal. For both cases we derive constraints from flavor, cosmology, direct and indirect DM detection, and collider searches.
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Bishara, F., Greljo, A., Kamenik, J.F. et al. Dark Matter and gauged flavor symmetries. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 1–40 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)130
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