Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2023)

SMEFT goes dark: Dark Matter models for four-fermion operators

  • Ricardo Cepedello,
  • Fabian Esser,
  • Martin Hirsch,
  • Veronica Sanz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)081
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 9
pp. 1 – 47

Abstract

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Abstract We study ultra-violet completions for d = 6 four-fermion operators in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT), focusing on models that contain cold dark matter candidates. Via a diagrammatic method, we generate systematically lists of possible UV completions, with the aim of providing sets of models, which are complete under certain, well specified assumptions. Within these lists of models we rediscover many known DM models, as diverse as R-parity conserving supersymmetry or the scotogenic neutrino mass model. Our lists, however, also contain many new constructions, which have not been studied in the literature so far. We also briefly discuss how our DM models could be constrained by reinterpretations of LHC searches and the prospects for HL-LHC and future lepton colliders.

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