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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 87, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.071701
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- NSERC (Canada)
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The inert doublet dark matter model has recently gained attention as a possible means of facilitating a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT), as needed for baryogenesis. We extend previous results by considering the regime where the DM is heavier than half the Higgs mass, and its relic density is determined by annihilation into W, Z and Higgs bosons. We find a large natural region of parameter space where the EWPT is strongly first order, while the lightest inert doublet state typically contributes only 0.1%-3% of the total dark matter. Despite this small density, its interactions with nucleons are strong enough to be directly detectable given a factor of 5 improvement over the current sensitivity of XENON100. A 10% increase in the branching ratio for Higgs decays to two photons is predicted. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.071701
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