Abstract
The simplest Higgs-portal dark matter model, in which a real scalar singlet is added to the standard model, has been comprehensively revisited, by taking into account the constraints from perturbativity, electroweak vacuum stability in the early Universe, dark matter direct detection, and Higgs invisible decay at the LHC. We show that the resonant mass region is totally excluded and the high mass region is reduced to a narrow window 1.1 TeV ≤ m s ≤ 2.55 TeV, which is slightly reduced to 1.1 TeV ≤ m s ≤ 2.0 TeV if the perturbativity is further imposed. This high mass region can be fully detected by the Xenon1T experiment.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Explore related subjects
Discover the latest articles, news and stories from top researchers in related subjects.Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
ATLAS collaboration, Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using up to 4.9 fb −1 of pp collision data at \( \sqrt{s}=7 \) TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Phys. Lett. B 710 (2012) 49 [arXiv:1202.1408] [INSPIRE].
CMS collaboration, Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s}=7 \) TeV, Phys. Lett. B 710 (2012) 26 [arXiv:1202.1488] [INSPIRE].
V. Silveira and A. Zee, Scalar phantoms, Phys. Lett. B 161 (1985) 136 [INSPIRE].
J. McDonald, Gauge singlet scalars as cold dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 50 (1994) 3637 [hep-ph/0702143] [INSPIRE].
J. McDonald, Thermally generated gauge singlet scalars as selfinteracting dark matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 091304 [hep-ph/0106249] [INSPIRE].
M.C. Bento, O. Bertolami, R. Rosenfeld and L. Teodoro, Selfinteracting dark matter and invisibly decaying Higgs, Phys. Rev. D 62 (2000) 041302 [astro-ph/0003350] [INSPIRE].
C.P. Burgess, M. Pospelov and T. ter Veldhuis, The minimal model of nonbaryonic dark matter: a singlet scalar, Nucl. Phys. B 619 (2001) 709 [hep-ph/0011335] [INSPIRE].
H. Davoudiasl, R. Kitano, T. Li and H. Murayama, The new minimal standard model, Phys. Lett. B 609 (2005) 117 [hep-ph/0405097] [INSPIRE].
A. Kusenko, Sterile neutrinos, dark matter and the pulsar velocities in models with a Higgs singlet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 241301 [hep-ph/0609081] [INSPIRE].
D. O’Connell, M.J. Ramsey-Musolf and M.B. Wise, Minimal extension of the standard model scalar sector, Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 037701 [hep-ph/0611014] [INSPIRE].
V. Barger, P. Langacker, M. McCaskey, M.J. Ramsey-Musolf and G. Shaughnessy, LHC phenomenology of an extended standard model with a real scalar singlet, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 035005 [arXiv:0706.4311] [INSPIRE].
H. Sung Cheon, S.K. Kang and C.S. Kim, Low scale leptogenesis and dark matter candidates in an extended seesaw model, JCAP 05 (2008) 004 [Erratum ibid. 03 (2011) E01] [arXiv:0710.2416] [INSPIRE].
X.-G. He, T. Li, X.-Q. Li, J. Tandean and H.-C. Tsai, Constraints on scalar dark matter from direct experimental searches, Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 023521 [arXiv:0811.0658] [INSPIRE].
R.N. Lerner and J. McDonald, Gauge singlet scalar as inflaton and thermal relic dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 123507 [arXiv:0909.0520] [INSPIRE].
M. Farina, D. Pappadopulo and A. Strumia, CDMS stands for constrained dark matter singlet, Phys. Lett. B 688 (2010) 329 [arXiv:0912.5038] [INSPIRE].
W.-L. Guo and Y.-L. Wu, The real singlet scalar dark matter model, JHEP 10 (2010) 083 [arXiv:1006.2518] [INSPIRE].
S. Profumo, L. Ubaldi and C. Wainwright, Singlet scalar dark matter: monochromatic gamma rays and metastable vacua, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 123514 [arXiv:1009.5377] [INSPIRE].
A. Biswas and D. Majumdar, The real gauge singlet scalar extension of standard model: a possible candidate of cold dark matter, Pramana 80 (2013) 539 [arXiv:1102.3024] [INSPIRE].
A. Djouadi, O. Lebedev, Y. Mambrini and J. Quevillon, Implications of LHC searches for Higgs-portal dark matter, Phys. Lett. B 709 (2012) 65 [arXiv:1112.3299] [INSPIRE].
A. Djouadi, A. Falkowski, Y. Mambrini and J. Quevillon, Direct detection of Higgs-portal dark matter at the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2455 [arXiv:1205.3169] [INSPIRE].
J.M. Cline, K. Kainulainen, P. Scott and C. Weniger, Update on scalar singlet dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 055025 [arXiv:1306.4710] [INSPIRE].
Planck collaboration, P.A.R. Ade et al., Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters, Astron. Astrophys. 571 (2014) A16 [arXiv:1303.5076] [INSPIRE].
XENON100 collaboration, E. Aprile et al., Dark matter results from 225 live days of XENON100 data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 181301 [arXiv:1207.5988] [INSPIRE].
XENON1T collaboration, E. Aprile, The XENON1T dark matter search experiment, Springer Proc. Phys. 148 (2013) 93 [arXiv:1206.6288] [INSPIRE].
LUX collaboration, D.S. Akerib et al., First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 091303 [arXiv:1310.8214] [INSPIRE].
ATLAS collaboration, Search for an invisibly decaying higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion in pp collisions at \( \sqrt{s}=8 \) TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC, ATLAS-CONF-2015-004 (2015).
Fermi-LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann et al., Search for gamma-ray spectral lines with the Fermi large area telescope and dark matter implications, Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 082002 [arXiv:1305.5597] [INSPIRE].
L. Feng, S. Profumo and L. Ubaldi, Closing in on singlet scalar dark matter: LUX, invisible Higgs decays and gamma-ray lines, JHEP 03 (2015) 045 [arXiv:1412.1105] [INSPIRE].
M. Duerr, P. Fileviez Perez and J. Smirnov, Scalar singlet dark matter and gamma lines, Phys. Lett. B 751 (2015) 119 [arXiv:1508.04418] [INSPIRE].
C.E. Yaguna, Gamma rays from the annihilation of singlet scalar dark matter, JCAP 03 (2009) 003 [arXiv:0810.4267] [INSPIRE].
D. Buttazzo et al., Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson, JHEP 12 (2013) 089 [arXiv:1307.3536] [INSPIRE].
A. Kobakhidze and A. Spencer-Smith, Electroweak vacuum (in)stability in an inflationary universe, Phys. Lett. B 722 (2013) 130 [arXiv:1301.2846] [INSPIRE].
A. Hook, J. Kearney, B. Shakya and K.M. Zurek, Probable or improbable universe? Correlating electroweak vacuum instability with the scale of inflation, JHEP 01 (2015) 061 [arXiv:1404.5953] [INSPIRE].
J.R. Espinosa et al., The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability, JHEP 09 (2015) 174 [arXiv:1505.04825] [INSPIRE].
N. Khan and S. Rakshit, Study of electroweak vacuum metastability with a singlet scalar dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 113008 [arXiv:1407.6015] [INSPIRE].
M. Kadastik, K. Kannike, A. Racioppi and M. Raidal, Implications of the 125 GeV Higgs boson for scalar dark matter and for the CMSSM phenomenology, JHEP 05 (2012) 061 [arXiv:1112.3647] [INSPIRE].
F. Kahlhoefer and J. McDonald, WIMP dark matter and unitarity-conserving inflation via a gauge singlet scalar, JCAP 11 (2015) 015 [arXiv:1507.03600] [INSPIRE].
G. Bélanger, F. Boudjema, A. Pukhov and A. Semenov, MicrOMEGAs4.1: two dark matter candidates, Comput. Phys. Commun. 192 (2015) 322 [arXiv:1407.6129] [INSPIRE].
A. Semenov, LanHEP — A package for automatic generation of Feynman rules from the Lagrangian. Updated version 3.2, arXiv:1412.5016 [INSPIRE].
J.M. Cline and K. Kainulainen, Electroweak baryogenesis and dark matter from a singlet Higgs, JCAP 01 (2013) 012 [arXiv:1210.4196] [INSPIRE].
C. Cheung, M. Papucci and K.M. Zurek, Higgs and dark matter hints of an oasis in the desert, JHEP 07 (2012) 105 [arXiv:1203.5106] [INSPIRE].
S. Zheng, Can Higgs inflation be saved with high-scale supersymmetry?, Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 489 [arXiv:1504.08093] [INSPIRE].
J.R. Espinosa, G.F. Giudice and A. Riotto, Cosmological implications of the Higgs mass measurement, JCAP 05 (2008) 002 [arXiv:0710.2484] [INSPIRE].
S. Zheng, Discovery of scalar mixed with SM Higgs via diboson excess at the LHC, arXiv:1508.06014 [INSPIRE].
R. Campbell, S. Godfrey, H.E. Logan, A.D. Peterson and A. Poulin, Implications of the observation of dark matter self-interactions for singlet scalar dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 055031 [arXiv:1505.01793] [INSPIRE].
R. Massey et al., The behaviour of dark matter associated with four bright cluster galaxies in the 10 kpc core of Abell 3827, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 449 (2015) 3393 [arXiv:1504.03388] [INSPIRE].
F. Kahlhoefer, K. Schmidt-Hoberg, J. Kummer and S. Sarkar, On the interpretation of dark matter self-interactions in Abell 3827, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 452 (2015) L54 [arXiv:1504.06576] [INSPIRE].
Open Access
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
ArXiv ePrint: 1509.01765
Rights and permissions
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
About this article
Cite this article
Han, H., Zheng, S. New constraints on Higgs-portal scalar dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 1–14 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)044
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)044