Abstract
It is very likely that similar to the case of visible matter, dark matter too is composed of more than one stable component. In this work we investigate a two-component dark matter with one component from the visible sector and the other from the hidden sector. Specifically we consider a $U(1)_X$ hidden sector extension of MSSM/SUGRA where we allow for kinetic and Stueckelberg mass mixing between the two abelian $U(1)'s$, i.e., $U(1)_X$ and $U(1)_Y$. We further assume that the hidden sector has chiral matter which leads to a Dirac fermion as a candidate for dark matter. The lightest neutralino in the visible sector and the Dirac fermion in the hidden sector then constitute the two components of dark matter. We investigate in particular MSSM/SUGRA models with radiative breaking occurring on the hyperbolic branch where the Higgs mixing parameter $\mu$ is small (order the electroweak scale) which leads to a lightest neutralino being dominantly a higgsino. While dark matter constituted only of higgsinos is significantly constrained by data on dark matter relic density and by limits on spin independent proton-DM scattering cross section, consistency with data can be achieved if only a fraction of the dark matter relic density is constituted of higgsinos with the rest coming from the hidden sector. An aspect of the proposed model is the prediction of a relatively light CP odd Higgs $A$ (as well as a CP even $H$ and a charged Higgs $H^{\pm}$) which is observable at HL-LHC and HE-LHC. We perform a detailed collider analysis search for the CP odd Higgs using boosted decision trees in $\tau_h\tau_h$ final states and compare the discovery potential at HL-LHC and HE-LHC. We show that while several of the points among our benchmarks may be observable at HL-LHC, all of them are visible at HE-LHC with much lower integrated luminosities thus reducing significantly the run time for discovery.
Highlights
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at ∼125 GeV [1,2] gives strong support for supersymmetry (SUSY)
As is well known, the Higgs boson mass at ∼125 GeV requires a large loop correction within the minimal supersymmetric standard model with supergravity (MSSM/SUGRA), which in turn implies that the size of weak-scale supersymmetry is large, lying in the severalTeV region
We focus on SUGRA models on the hyperbolic branch with a small μ where the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is Higgsino-like
Summary
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at ∼125 GeV [1,2] gives strong support for supersymmetry (SUSY). As is well known, the Higgs boson mass at ∼125 GeV requires a large loop correction within the minimal supersymmetric standard model with supergravity (MSSM/SUGRA), which in turn implies that the size of weak-scale supersymmetry is large, lying in the severalTeV region This explains why SUSY has not been observed at accelerators far. [14,15,16,17]) Models of this type are severely constrained by the simultaneous satisfaction of dark matter relic density data and by the spin-independent proton-DM scattering cross section limits in direct-detection experiments. It is seen that the Dirac fermion of the hidden sector provides the dominant piece of the relic density, but the Higgsino dark matter dominates the spin-independent cross section in the direct-detection experiments. Several works on the HL-LHC and HE-LHC discovery potential have appeared recently and in the past few years [37,38,39,40,41,42]
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