Viable dark matter via radiative symmetry breaking in a Higgs portal extension of the standard model

ORAL

Abstract

We consider generation of dark matter mass via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking in an extension of the conformal Standard Model containing a singlet scalar field with a Higgs portal interaction. Generating the mass from a sequential process of radiative electroweak symmetry breaking followed by a conventional Higgs mechanism can account for less than 30\% of the cosmological dark matter abundance. However in a dynamical approach where both Higgs and scalar singlet masses are generated via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking we obtain much higher levels of dark matter abundance: 10\%--80\% for a dark matter mass of $80\,{\rm GeV}

*Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Authors

  • Zhi-Wei Wang

    • University of Saskatchewan
  • Tom Steele

    • University of Saskatchewan
  • Robb Mann

    • University of Waterloo
  • Dagoberto Contreras

    • University of Waterloo