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Stealth Dark Matter: Dark scalar baryons through the Higgs portal

We present a new model of stealth dark matter: a composite baryonic scalar of an SU(ND) strongly coupled theory with even ND≥4. All mass scales are technically natural, and dark matter stability is automatic without imposing an additional discrete or …

Lattice Calculation of Composite Dark Matter Form Factors

Composite dark matter candidates, which can arise from new strongly-coupled sectors, are well-motivated and phenomenologically interesting, particularly in the context of asymmetric generation of the relic density. In this work, we employ lattice …

Thermal dark matter from a confining sector

We study a class of dark matter models in which the dark matter is a baryon-like composite particle of a confining gauge group and also a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the breaking of an enhanced chiral symmetry group. The approximate …