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A multi-TeV muon collider proves to be very efficient not only for the search for new heavy neutral particles, but also for the discovery of charged bosons of the W′ type. We find that, by analyzing the associated production with a Standard Model W, charged resonances can be probed directly up to multi-TeV mass values close to the collision energy, and for very small couplings with the SM fermions, of the order of 10−3 − 10−4 times the SM weak coupling. Additionally, charged bound states of WIMP Minimal Dark Matter, specifically a Majorana fermionic 5-plet, can be discovered with low statistics by running above the kinematic threshold, at a center-of-mass energy just slightly above the mass of the MDM bound state. This opens up a very interesting possibility for the discovery of WIMPs, complementary to the search for the resonant production of the neutral MDM bound state component, which relies on an on-peak search. For 5-plet MDM, indeed, the proposed search strategy is more efficient than the WIMP searches based on mono-X, missing-mass and disappearing tracks signatures.
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The author thanks Salvatore Bottaro and Alessandro Strumia for previous collaboration on related topics, and Roberto Franceschini for discussions leading to this work and comments on the manuscript. This work was partially supported by ICSC — Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by European Union — NextGenerationEU, reference code CN_00000013.
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Vignaroli, N. Charged resonances and MDM bound states at a multi-TeV muon collider. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 121 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)121
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