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Where collider searches for resonant invisible particles lose steam, dark sectors might leave their trace as virtual effects in precision observables. Here we explore this option in the framework of Higgs portal models, where a sector of dark fermions interacts with the standard model through a strong renormalizable coupling to the Higgs boson. We show that precise measurements of Higgs-gauge and triple Higgs interactions can probe dark fermions up to the TeV scale through virtual corrections. Observation prospects at the LHC and future lepton colliders are discussed for the so-called singlet-doublet model of Majorana fermions, a generalization of the bino-higgsino scenario in supersymmetry. We advocate a two-fold search strategy for dark sectors through direct and indirect observables.
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Voigt, A., Westhoff, S. Virtual signatures of dark sectors in Higgs couplings. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 9 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)009
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