Dark Forces At The Tevatron
| Autor: | Dan Hooper, Pavel Fileviez Pérez, Matt Buckley, Ethan T. Neil |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics Particle physics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) media_common.quotation_subject Dark matter Tevatron FOS: Physical sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear physics High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) media_common Boson Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) Gauge boson High Energy Physics::Phenomenology Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Universe High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) High Energy Physics::Experiment Nucleon Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Lepton Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1104.3145 |
| Popis: | A simple explanation of the W+dijet excess recently reported by the CDF collaboration involves the introduction of a new gauge boson with sizable couplings to quarks, but with no or highly suppressed couplings to leptons. Anomaly-free theories which include such a leptophobic gauge boson must also include additional particle content, which may include a stable and otherwise viable candidate for dark matter. Based on the couplings and mass of the Z' required to generate the CDF excess, we predict such a dark matter candidate to possess an elastic scattering cross section with nucleons on the order of sigma ~ 10^-40 cm^2, providing a natural explanation for the signals reported by the CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA collaborations. In this light, CDF may be observing the gauge boson responsible for the force which mediates the interactions between the dark and visible matter of our universe. Comment: 4 pages, no figures |
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