Mixed dark matter from technicolor
Abstract
We study natural composite cold dark matter candidates which are pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pNGB) in models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. Some of these can have a significant thermal relic abundance, while others must be mainly asymmetric dark matter. By considering the thermal abundance alone we find a lower bound of mW on the pNGB mass when the (composite) Higgs is heavier than 115 GeV. Being pNGBs, the dark matter candidates are in general light enough to be produced at the LHC.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- January 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.015007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1007.4839
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvD..83a5007B
- Keywords:
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- 95.35.+d;
- 12.60.Nz;
- 14.80.Tt;
- 98.80.-k;
- Dark matter;
- Technicolor models;
- Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice
- E-Print:
- LaTeX, 9 pages, 8 figures