Toward a Comprehensive Exploration of Flavored Dark Matter Models

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Autores principales: Belfatto, Benedetta, Blanke, Monika, Heisig, Jan, Krämer, Michael, Rathmann, Lena, Wilsch, Felix
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Publicado: 2025
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author Belfatto, Benedetta
Blanke, Monika
Heisig, Jan
Krämer, Michael
Rathmann, Lena
Wilsch, Felix
author_facet Belfatto, Benedetta
Blanke, Monika
Heisig, Jan
Krämer, Michael
Rathmann, Lena
Wilsch, Felix
contents We present a comprehensive framework for the study of flavored dark matter models, combining relic density calculations with direct and indirect detection limits, collider constraints, and a global analysis of flavor observables based on SMEFT matching and renormalization-group evolution. The framework applies to scalar or fermionic dark matter, including both self-conjugate and non-self-conjugate cases. As a proof of principle, we analyze two scenarios with Majorana dark matter coupling to right-handed charged leptons and to right-handed down-type quarks, assuming a thermal freeze-out. In the leptophilic case, flavor-violating decays such as $μ\to e γ$ dominate the constraints, while LHC searches still leave sizable parameter space. For quark couplings, direct detection bounds and meson mixing severely restrict the allowed couplings, favoring hierarchical flavor structures. The toolchain presented in this paper is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/lena-ra/Flavored-Dark-Matter).
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spellingShingle Toward a Comprehensive Exploration of Flavored Dark Matter Models
Belfatto, Benedetta
Blanke, Monika
Heisig, Jan
Krämer, Michael
Rathmann, Lena
Wilsch, Felix
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present a comprehensive framework for the study of flavored dark matter models, combining relic density calculations with direct and indirect detection limits, collider constraints, and a global analysis of flavor observables based on SMEFT matching and renormalization-group evolution. The framework applies to scalar or fermionic dark matter, including both self-conjugate and non-self-conjugate cases. As a proof of principle, we analyze two scenarios with Majorana dark matter coupling to right-handed charged leptons and to right-handed down-type quarks, assuming a thermal freeze-out. In the leptophilic case, flavor-violating decays such as $μ\to e γ$ dominate the constraints, while LHC searches still leave sizable parameter space. For quark couplings, direct detection bounds and meson mixing severely restrict the allowed couplings, favoring hierarchical flavor structures. The toolchain presented in this paper is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/lena-ra/Flavored-Dark-Matter).
title Toward a Comprehensive Exploration of Flavored Dark Matter Models
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10490