Abstract
We present global analyses of effective Higgs portal dark matter models in the frequentist and Bayesian statistical frameworks. Complementing earlier studies of the scalar Higgs portal, we use GAMBIT to determine the preferred mass and coupling ranges for models with vector, Majorana and Dirac fermion dark matter. We also assess the relative plausibility of all four models using Bayesian model comparison. Our analysis includes up-to-date likelihood functions for the dark matter relic density, invisible Higgs decays, and direct and indirect searches for weakly-interacting dark matter including the latest XENON1T data. We also account for important uncertainties arising from the local density and velocity distribution of dark matter, nuclear matrix elements relevant to direct detection, and Standard Model masses and couplings. In all Higgs portal models, we find parameter regions that can explain all of dark matter and give a good fit to all data. The case of vector dark matter requires the most tuning and is therefore slightly disfavoured from a Bayesian point of view. In the case of fermionic dark matter, we find a strong preference for including a CP-violating phase that allows suppression of constraints from direct detection experiments, with odds in favour of CP violation of the order of 100:1. Finally, we present DDCalc2.0.0, a tool for calculating direct detection observables and likelihoods for arbitrary non-relativistic effective operators.
Highlights
Cosmological and astrophysical experiments have provided firm evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM) [1,2,3,4]
As described in more detail in Ref. [101], the flux of gamma rays in a given energy bin i from a target object labeled by k can be written in the factorised form Φi · Jk, where Φi encodes all information about the particle physics properties of the DM annihilation process, while Jk depends on the spatial distribution of DM in the region of interest
For the Dirac model, we show the mass-coupling plane in Fig. 6, as the relevant physics and results are virtually identical to the Majorana case
Summary
Cosmological and astrophysical experiments have provided firm evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM) [1,2,3,4]. Despite being simple extensions of the SM in terms of particle content and interactions, Higgs portal models have a rich phenomenology, and can serve as effective descriptions of more complicated theories [30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52] They can produce distinct signals at present and future colliders, DM direct detection experiments or in cosmic ray experiments. All GAMBIT input files, samples and best-fit points for this study are publicly available online via Zenodo [81]
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