TeV Scale Singlet Dark Matter

Understand

It is well known that stable weak scale particles are viable dark matter candidates since the annihilation cross section is naturally about the right magnitude to leave the correct thermal residual abundance.

• Many dark matter searches have focused on relatively light dark matter consistent with weak couplings to the Standard Model.
• However, in a strongly coupled theory, or even if the coupling is just a few times bigger than the Standard Model couplings, dark matter can have TeV-scale mass with the correct thermal relic abundance.
• Here we consider neutral TeV-mass scalar dark matter, its necessary interactions, and potential signals.