Constraints on Majorana Dark Matter from a Fourth Lepton Family
arXiv:1309.6326 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/050
Abstract
We study the possibility of dark matter in the form of heavy neutrinos from a fourth lepton family with helicity suppressed couplings such that dark matter is produced thermally via annihilations in the early Universe. We present all possible constraints for this scenario coming from LHC and collider physics, underground direct detectors, neutrino telescopes, and indirect astrophysical searches. Although we embed the WIMP candidate within a model of composite dynamics, the majority of our results are model independent and applicable to all models where heavy neutrinos with suppressed couplings account for the dark matter abundance.
24 pages, 2 figures. v2: some clarifications and some references added; new paragraph and new line in the plot with the latest LUX results; matches version published on JCAP
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