Dark Matter Blind Spots at One-Loop

Abstract

We evaluate the impact of one-loop electroweak corrections to the spin-independent dark matter (DM) scattering cross-section with nucleons (${\sigma }_{\mathrm{SI}}$), in models with a so-called blind spot for direct detection, where the leading-order prediction for the relevant DM coupling to the Higgs boson, and therefore ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{SI}}$, are vanishingly small. Adopting a simple illustrative scenario in which the DM state results from the mixing of electroweak singlet and doublet fermions, we compute the relevant higher order corrections to the scalar effective operator contributions to ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{SI}}$, stemming from both triangle and box diagrams involving the SM and dark sector fields. It is observed that in a significant region of the singlet-doublet model-space, the one-loop corrections ``unblind'' the tree-level blind spots and lead to detectable SI scattering rates at future multi-ton scale liquid Xenon experiments, with ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{SI}}$ reaching values up to a few times $10^{-47}{\mathrm{cm}}^2$, for a weak scale DM with $\mathcal{O}(1)$ Yukawa couplings. Furthermore, we find that there always exists a new SI blind spot at the next-to-leading order, which is perturbatively shifted from the leading order one in the singlet-doublet mass parameters. For comparison, we also present the tree-level spin-dependent scattering cross-sections near the SI blind-spot region, that could lead to a larger signal. Our results can be mapped to the blind-spot scenario for bino-Higgsino DM in the MSSM, with other sfermions, the heavier Higgs boson, and the wino decoupled.

arXiv comment20 pages, 5 figures; Minor corrections, references updated, version published in JHEP

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