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PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 350 - 7th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2019) - Posters
Dark Matter Signals at the LHC from a 3HDM
D. Rojas Ciofalo*, A. Cordero, J. Hernández-Sánchez, V. Keus, S. Moretti and D. Sokolowska
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Pre-published on: August 08, 2019
Published on: December 04, 2019
Abstract
We analyse new signals of Dark Matter (DM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where only one doublet acquires a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), preserving a parity Z2. The other two doublets are inert and do not develop a VEV, leading to a dark scalar sector controlled by Z2, with the lightest CP-even dark scalar H1 being the DM candidate. This leads to the loop induced decay of the next-to-lightest scalar, H2H1ˉff (f=u,d,c,s,b,e,μ,τ), mediated by both dark CP-odd and charged scalars. This is a smoking-gun signal of the 3HDM since it is not allowed in the 2HDM with one inert doublet and is expected to be important when H2 and H1 are close in mass. In practice, this signature can be observed in the cascade decay of the SM-like Higgs boson, hH1H2H1H1ˉff into two DM particles and di-leptons/di-jets, where h is produced from either gluon-gluon Fusion (ggF) or Vector Boson Fusion (VBF). However, this signal competes with the tree-level channel qˉqH1H1ZH1H1ˉff. We devise some benchmarks, compliant with collider, DM and cosmological data, for which the interplay between these modes is discussed. In particular, we show that the resulting detector signature, with missing energy and invariant mass of ˉff much smaller than mZ, can potentially be extracted already during Run 2 and 3. For example, the H2H1γ and γe+e case will give a spectacular QED mono-shower signal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.350.0013
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