Fermion dark matter in the vector scotogenic model: a survey of signatures
Paulo Areyuna C (Millennium Institute for Subatomic Physics at High Energy Frontier-SAPHIR, Fernandez Concha 700, Santiago, Chile)
; Jilberto Zamora-Saa (Millennium Institute for Subatomic Physics at High Energy Frontier-SAPHIR, Fernandez Concha 700, Santiago, Chile, Center for Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics-CTEPP, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Andres Bello, Fernandez Concha 700, Santiago, Chile)
; Alfonso Zerwekh (Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile, Centro Científico-Tecnológico de Valparaíso, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile, Millennium Institute for Subatomic Physics at High Energy Frontier-SAPHIR, Fernandez Concha 700, Santiago, Chile)
In this work, we have studied the vector scotogenic model in the context of the dark matter problem. Due to unitarity considerations, we have focused on the scenario with fermion dark matter, finding out that co-annihilations play a fundamental role in achieving dark matter relic abundance. Moreover, the coannihilation effects allow to separate the parameter space into two regions with different phenomenology. In addition, we have studied the detection prospects of these regions separately, focusing on signatures that can appear in lepton flavor violating decays, indirect and direct searches, and the production of these new particles at collider facilities.