Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The hierarchy problem and the identity of dark matter are two of the central driving forces in particle physics. Twin Higgs models provide an elegant solution to the little hierarchy problem, while strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs) provide an appealing dark matter candidate. Here we show that SIMPs can easily be embedded in the twin Higgs setup, such that dark matter and the hierarchy problem can be addressed in a single framework. This also provides a natural explanation to the proximity between the confinement scale of SIMP dark matter and the strong scale of QCD.
Authors: Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hitoshi Murayama
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Azrieli Foundation, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Israeli Centers for Research Excellence
Awards: G1149658288, G1286236842, G1816284028, G1863003419, Classification of Effective Operators and Dark Matter, G2371702954, G2419081464, G3083819904, G3409195771, G3557733969, G3581418648, G365575497, G3689434148, New Pathways Connecting Theory and Experiment, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in astro, particle, condensed matter, and atomic physics, G42916606, G465867758, G6808260581, G6902702339, G7209486743, G8094459979, G8104062120, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W2906692652