Holographic Dark Matter and Higgs Models

Abstract

We propose a dark matter candidate within the class of models where electroweak symmetry breaking is triggered by a light composite Higgs boson. In these dual anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory models, the Higgs boson emerges as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson, while dark matter can be identified with a stable composite fermion X0. The effective Lagrangian description of the Higgs and X0-multiplets, including higher-dimensional operators, can be tested at future colliders (LHC, ILC) and through astrophysical signals (ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays). The expected mass of X0, mX0 < or approximately 4pif approximately O (TeV), satisfies the bounds extracted from the cosmological relic density, while the experimental searches for dark matter further constrains the possible models.