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Main Authors: Bertuzzo, Enrico, Sassi, Tommaso, Tesi, Andrea
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14437
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author Bertuzzo, Enrico
Sassi, Tommaso
Tesi, Andrea
author_facet Bertuzzo, Enrico
Sassi, Tommaso
Tesi, Andrea
contents We construct an effective field theory for complex Stueckelberg dark photon dark matter. Such an effective construction can be realized by writing down a complete set of operators up to dimension six built with the complex dark photon and Standard Model fields. Classifying the effective operators, we find that in order to properly take into account the non-renormalizable nature of an interacting massive vector, the size of the Wilson coefficients should be naturally smaller than naively expected. This can be consistently taken into account by a proper power counting, that we suggest. First we apply this to collider bounds on light dark matter, then to direct detection searches by extending the list of non-relativistic operators to include the case of complex vectors. In the former we correctly find scaling limits for small masses, while in the latter we mostly focus on electric dipole interactions, that are the smoking gun of this type of dark matter. Simple UV completions that effectively realize the above scenarios are also outlined.
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spellingShingle Complex Dark Photon Dark Matter EFT
Bertuzzo, Enrico
Sassi, Tommaso
Tesi, Andrea
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We construct an effective field theory for complex Stueckelberg dark photon dark matter. Such an effective construction can be realized by writing down a complete set of operators up to dimension six built with the complex dark photon and Standard Model fields. Classifying the effective operators, we find that in order to properly take into account the non-renormalizable nature of an interacting massive vector, the size of the Wilson coefficients should be naturally smaller than naively expected. This can be consistently taken into account by a proper power counting, that we suggest. First we apply this to collider bounds on light dark matter, then to direct detection searches by extending the list of non-relativistic operators to include the case of complex vectors. In the former we correctly find scaling limits for small masses, while in the latter we mostly focus on electric dipole interactions, that are the smoking gun of this type of dark matter. Simple UV completions that effectively realize the above scenarios are also outlined.
title Complex Dark Photon Dark Matter EFT
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14437