Abstract

We study phenomenology of a light scalar dark matter (DM). In the model, there is an inert doublet scalar and a singlet Dirac fermion ψ, both charged under a global Z2 symmetry. The mass of the lightest inert scalar H can be lighter than 10 GeV by imposing appropriate relations between three scalar quartic couplings. The lightest Z2 odd particle is stable and DM. In this paper, focusing on the parameter space where H is lighter than ψ and is DM, we discuss DM physics related to relic density, direct detection, indirect detection, collider searches, and other cosmological observations. We clarify differences from the case where ψ is instead DM, which has been focused on in previous works. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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