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The price for monopole dark matter
Felix Brümmer, Giacomo Ferrante, Théodore Fischer +1
We construct an explicit model where dark matter consists of 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles. The dark sector is in thermal contact with the Standard Model, and dark monopoles are crea…
Cosmological consequences of spontaneous symmetry breaking
Giacomo Ferrante
The Standard Model of particle physics and the CDM model of cosmology provide an incomplete description of our Universe. Both models face challenges, including explaining the na…
No room for minimal monopole dark matter
Felix Brümmer, Giacomo Ferrante, Théodore Fischer +1
The magnetic monopole of a dark sector has been advocated as an appealing dark matter candidate. We revisit the computation of the monopole abundance , generated by a thermal…
Accidentally light scalars from large representations
Felix Brümmer, Giacomo Ferrante, Michele Frigerio +1
In models with spontaneous symmetry breaking by scalar fields in large group representations, we observe that some of the scalar masses can be loop-suppressed with respect to the n…