Naturality, unification, and dark matter
Abstract
We consider a model where electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by technicolor dynamics with minimal particle content required for walking coupling and saturation of global anomalies. Furthermore, the model features three additional Weyl fermions singlet under technicolor interactions, two of which provide for a one-loop unification of the standard model gauge couplings. Among these extra matter fields exists a possible candidate for weakly interacting dark matter. We evaluate the relic densities and find that they are sufficient to explain the cosmological observations and avoid the experimental limits from earth-based searches. Hence, we establish a nonsupersymmetric framework where hierarchy and naturality problems are solved, coupling constant unification is achieved, and a plausible dark matter candidate exists.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- August 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.043511
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1001.4936
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvD..82d3511K
- Keywords:
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- 95.35.+d;
- 12.60.Fr;
- 12.60.Nz;
- 12.60.Rc;
- Dark matter;
- Extensions of electroweak Higgs sector;
- Technicolor models;
- Composite models;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Phys.Rev.D82:043511,2010