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Flavourful Z′ portal for vector-like neutrino dark matter and RK(*)

Flavourful Z′ portal for vector-like neutrino dark matter and RK(*)
Flavourful Z′ portal for vector-like neutrino dark matter and RK(*)

We discuss a flavourful Z′ portal model with a coupling to fourth-family singlet Dirac neutrino dark matter. In the absence of mixing, the Z′ is fermiophobic, having no couplings to the three chiral families, but does couple to a fourth vector-like family. Due to mixing effects, the Z′ gets induced couplings to second family left-handed lepton doublets and third family left-handed quark doublets. This model can simultaneously account for the measured B-decay ratios RK and RK* and for the observed relic abundance of dark matter. We identify the parameter space where this explanation is consistent with existing experimental constraints from dark matter direct and indirect detection, LHC searches, and precision measurements of flavour mixing and neutrino processes.

Beyond Standard Model, Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM, Gauge Symmetry
1126-6708
Falkowski, Adam
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King, Stephen F.
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Perdomo, Elena
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Pierre, Mathias
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Falkowski, Adam
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King, Stephen F.
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Perdomo, Elena
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Pierre, Mathias
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Falkowski, Adam, King, Stephen F., Perdomo, Elena and Pierre, Mathias (2018) Flavourful Z′ portal for vector-like neutrino dark matter and RK(*). Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 (8), [61]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2018)061).

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We discuss a flavourful Z′ portal model with a coupling to fourth-family singlet Dirac neutrino dark matter. In the absence of mixing, the Z′ is fermiophobic, having no couplings to the three chiral families, but does couple to a fourth vector-like family. Due to mixing effects, the Z′ gets induced couplings to second family left-handed lepton doublets and third family left-handed quark doublets. This model can simultaneously account for the measured B-decay ratios RK and RK* and for the observed relic abundance of dark matter. We identify the parameter space where this explanation is consistent with existing experimental constraints from dark matter direct and indirect detection, LHC searches, and precision measurements of flavour mixing and neutrino processes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 3 August 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 August 2018
Published date: August 2018
Keywords: Beyond Standard Model, Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM, Gauge Symmetry

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Local EPrints ID: 424473
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424473
ISSN: 1126-6708
PURE UUID: fbde7a5f-2de3-4705-a468-a07c6ee86b39

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Date deposited: 05 Oct 2018 11:37
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 12:09

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Author: Adam Falkowski
Author: Stephen F. King
Author: Elena Perdomo
Author: Mathias Pierre

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