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Invisible Higgs and dark matter

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We investigate the possibility that a massive weakly interacting fermion simultaneously provides for a dominant component of the dark matter relic density and an invisible decay width of the Higgs boson at the LHC. As a concrete model realizing such dynamics we consider the minimal walking technicolor, although our results apply more generally. Taking into account the constraints from the electroweak precision measurements and current direct searches for dark matter particles, we find that such scenario is heavily constrained, and large portions of the parameter space are excluded.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

    Matti Heikinheimo

  2. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O.Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Kimmo Tuominen

  3. Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Kimmo Tuominen

  4. CP3 Origins, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Jussi Virkajärvi

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Heikinheimo, M., Tuominen, K. & Virkajärvi, J. Invisible Higgs and dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 117 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)117

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