WIMP Dark Matter at High Energy Muon Colliders −A White Paper for Snowmass 2021

Tao Han, Zhen Liu, Lian-Tao Wang, Xing Wang

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arXiv
2203.07351
Date
2022-03-14
Frontier
Energy Frontier (EF)
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Xing Wang

Abstract

In a previous publication, we showed that a high energy muon collider can make decisive statements about the electroweak (WIMP) Dark Matter (DM), reaching a DM mass which could give the observed thermal relic abundance. In this document, we report new studies of the spin-0 minimal WIMP DM at high energy muon colliders, and update our results on the fermionic spin-1/2 case. We find that, by combining multiple inclusive missing mass search channels, it is possible to fully cover the thermal targets of fermionic and scalar doublets, and Dirac triplet, with a 10 TeV muon collider. Higher energies, 14 TeV−30 TeV, would be able to cover the thermal targets of Majorana and scalar triplet. For direct discovery of the higher EW multiplets with n≥5, one may need to go beyond a 30 TeV muon collider to fully cover their thermal mass expectation.