A cancellation mechanism for dark matter-nucleon interaction

Abstract

We consider a simple Higgs portal dark matter model, where the Standard Model is supplemented with a complex scalar whose imaginary part plays the role of WIMP dark matter (DM). We show that the direct DM detection cross section vanishes at tree level and zero momentum transfer due to a cancellation by virtue of a softly broken symmetry. This cancellation is operative for any mediator masses. As a result, our electroweak scale dark matter satisfies all of the phenomenological constraints quite naturally.

v2: 9pages, minor corrections and modifications

References in corpus (11)

• Secluded WIMP Dark Matter
• Gauge Singlet Scalars as Cold Dark Matter
• First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
• micrOMEGAs4.1: two dark matter candidates
• Complex Singlet Extension of the Standard Model
• Status of the scalar singlet dark matter model
• A second Higgs from the Higgs portal
• Exploring Resonant di-Higgs production in the Higgs Singlet Model
• Reopening the Higgs portal for Singlet Scalar Dark Matter
• Multicomponent Dark Matter from Gauge Symmetry
• Evading Direct Dark Matter Detection in Higgs Portal Models

Cited by in corpus (94)

• Dark Matter through the Higgs portal
• Scalar Non-Standard Interactions in Neutrino Oscillation
• Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter confronts cosmic ray and collider anomalies
• The Higgs Portal to Cosmology
• A Global View of the Off-Shell Higgs Portal
• Probing pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson dark matter at loop level
• The CMS di-photon excess at 95 GeV in view of the LHC Run 2 results
• The Waning of the WIMP: Endgame?
• Probing pseudo-Goldstone dark matter at the LHC
• Gravitational Wave Signals of Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in the ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ Complex Singlet Model
• Inelastic extra $U(1)$ charged scalar dark matter
• One-loop contribution to dark matter-nucleon scattering in the pseudoscalar dark matter model
• Higgs portal dark matter in non-thermal cosmologies
• Loop Effects in Direct Detection
• From inflation to cosmological electroweak phase transition with a complex scalar singlet
• Ultralight bosons for strong gravity applications from simple Standard Model extensions
• First-order electroweak phase transition in a complex singlet model with ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ symmetry
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter from gauged $U(1{)}_{B-L}$ symmetry
• Phase Transitions and Gravitational Wave Tests of Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in the Softly Broken U(1) Scalar Singlet Model
• Dark matter of any spin -- an effective field theory and applications
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter and two-Higgs-doublet models
• Pseudo Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter: Examples of Vanishing Direct Detection Cross Section
• Complementarity of the future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders and gravitational waves in the probe of complex singlet extension to the Standard Model
• A complete effective field theory for dark matter
• Phase transition gravitational waves from pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter and two Higgs doublets
• Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in gauged $B-L$ extended Standard Model
• Testing scalar versus vector dark matter
• Direct and indirect probes of Goldstone dark matter
• Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter: gravitational waves and direct-detection blind spots
• Global fit of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter
• Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens
• Long live the Higgs portal!
• A model of electroweakly interacting non-abelian vector dark matter
• Exotic Higgs Decays
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter Model Inspired by Grand Unification
• Electroweak phase transition in a complex singlet extension of the Standard Model with degenerate scalars
• Maximum value of the spin-independent cross section in the THDM+a
• Dark Matter Phenomenology in 2HDMS in light of the 95 GeV excess
• Early kinetic decoupling and a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter model
• Scalar gauge dynamics and Dark Matter
• Constraints on Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter from direct detection experiment and neutron star reheating temperature
• Gravitational waves from walls bounded by strings in $SO(10)$ model of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter
• A Singlet Dark Matter in the SU(6)/SO(6) Composite Higgs Model
• Singlet night in Feynman-ville: one-loop matching of a real scalar
• Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in $SO(10)$
• Cancellation in Dark Matter-Nucleon Interactions: the Role of Non-Standard-Model-like Yukawa Couplings
• Dark matter from a complex scalar singlet: The role of dark CP and other discrete symmetries
• Non-thermal Production of PNGB Dark Matter and Inflation
• Probing Higgs-portal dark matter with vector-boson fusion
• Principle of Multiple Point Criticality in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Models
• Cancellation mechanism of dark matter direct detection in Higgs-portal and vector-portal models
• Probing a degenerate-scalar scenario in a pseudoscalar dark-matter model
• TeV-scale Majorogenesis
• Vector dark matter in supercooled Higgs portal models
• Direct detection of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter in a two Higgs doublet plus singlet extension of the SM
• The effect of the early kinetic decoupling in a fermionic dark matter model
• Gravitational waves from cosmic strings associated with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter
• Distinctive signals of boosted dark matter from its semi-annihilation
• Direct detection of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter with light mediator
• Searching for pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson dark matter production in association with top quarks
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter from Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetry
• A model of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter from a softly broken $SU(2)$ global symmetry with a $U(1)$ gauge symmetry
• One-loop Corrections to the Higgs Boson Invisible Decay in a Complex Singlet Extension of the SM
• A complex singlet extension of the Standard Model and Multi-critical Point Principle
• Electroweak phase transition confronted with dark matter detection constraints
• Ultraviolet completion of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter with a hidden U(1) gauge symmetry
• Dark-matter-spin effects at future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders
• An update on the two singlet Dark Matter model
• WIMP Dark Matter Hidden behind its Companion
• Generalized Blind Spots for Dark Matter Direct Detection in the 2HDM
• Non-monotonic behavior of the Binder Parameter in the discrete spin systems
• Semi-annihilating dark matter coupled with Majorons
• Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE
• Exploring Direct Detection Suppressed Regions in a Simple 2-Scalar Mediator Model of Scalar Dark Matter
• Conformal B-L and Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter
• Electroweak Corrections to Dark Matter Direct Detection in the Dark Singlet Phase of the N2HDM
• Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter Model with CP violation
• Electroweak Phase Transition in Two Scalar Singlet Model with pNGB Dark Matter
• The Higgs-portal for Dark Matter:effective field theories versus concrete realizations
• Reconciling Higgs physics and pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter in the S2HDM using a genetic algorithm
• Pseudo scalar dark matter in a generic U$(1{)}_X$ model
• Exploring the viability of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson as ultralight dark matter in a mass range relevant for strong gravity applications
• Can WIMPs Survive the Legacy of a Magnetised Early Universe?
• Exploring the Null Results in the Direct Detection Experiments, $(g-2{)}_{\ell }$ and Neutrino Mass in an Extended $U(1{)}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ Model Constrained through the $Z\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ Decays
• Constraining Light Scalar Field with Torsion-Balance Gravity Experiments
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-boson Dark Matter from Three Complex Scalars
• Phenomenology of the Hidden SU(2) Vector Dark Matter Model
• Minimal dark matter in $SU(5)$ grand unification
• evortran: a modern Fortran package for genetic algorithms with applications from LHC data fitting to LISA signal reconstruction
• A singlet scalar assisted $N_2$ Leptogenesis and Pseudo-Scalar Dark Matter
• Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter in Flux Compactification
• Information-theoretic astrophysical uncertainties in the effective theory of dark matter direct detection
• Vector Portal Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter
• A Unified Model for Inflation, pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter, Neutrino Mass and Baryogenesis