Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2019)

Unification of the standard model and dark matter sectors in [SU(5) × U(1)]4

  • Ayuki Kamada,
  • Masaki Yamada,
  • Tsutomu T. Yanagida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2019)180
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019, no. 7
pp. 1 – 18

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Abstract A simple model of dark matter contains a light Dirac field charged under a hidden U(1) gauge symmetry. When a chiral matter content in a strong dynamics satisfies the t’Hooft anomaly matching condition, a massless baryon is a natural candidate of the light Dirac field. One realization is the same matter content as the standard SU(5) × U(1)(B−L) grand unified theory. We propose a chiral [SU(5) × U(1)]4 gauge theory as a unified model of the SM and DM sectors. The low-energy dynamics, which was recently studied, is governed by the hidden U(1)4 gauge interaction and the third-family U 1 B − L 3 $$ \mathrm{U}{(1)}_{{\left(B-L\right)}_3} $$ gauge interaction. This model can realize self-interacting dark matter and alleviate the small-scale crisis of collisionless cold dark matter in the cosmological structure formation. The model can also address the semi-leptonic B-decay anomaly reported by the LHCb experiment.

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