Scalar Dark Matter and Electroweak Stability
arXiv:2005.03589
Abstract
The standard model of elementary particles (SM), despite experimental completion at the LHC, needs to be extended for various physical reasons, including the cold dark matter (DM). Each extension comes with its scale and mechanism, and typically lifts, at the loop level, the electroweak scale towards its high scale. The problem is to keep the electroweak scale stable while providing a room for the aforementioned heavy extensions. To this end, it turns out that the SM Higgs sector remains stable in the presence of a heavy scalar if their quartic couplings unify at a certain scale when their masses are degenerate. Under this mass-degeneracy-driven unification (MDDU), the scalar under concern is found to qualify as a viable DM candidate and to leave the electroweak scale stable. Our detailed simulation studies explicitly show that the MDDU parameter space agrees with current collider and astrophysical bounds. Our work can be extended to other relevant scalars (like flavons, inflaton and others) as a mechanism by which the electroweak scale is held stable.
19 pages, 12 figures
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