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Blind spots for neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 179 (2016) Cite this article

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Abstract

Spin-independent cross-section for neutralino dark matter scattering off nuclei is investigated in the NMSSM. Several classes of blind spots for direct detection of singlino-Higgsino dark matter are analytically identified, including such that have no analog in the MSSM. It is shown that mixing of the Higgs doublets with the scalar singlet has a big impact on the position of blind spots in the parameter space. In particular, this mixing allows for more freedom in the sign assignment for the parameters entering the neutralino mass matrix, required for a blind spot to occur, as compared to the MSSM or the NMSSM with decoupled singlet. Moreover, blind spots may occur for any composition of a singlino-Higgsino LSP. Particular attention is paid to cases with the singlet-dominated scalar lighter than the 125 GeV Higgs for which a vanishing tree-level spin-independent scattering cross-section may result from destructive interference between the Higgs and the singlet-dominated scalar exchange. Correlations of the spin-independent scattering cross-section with the Higgs observables are also discussed.

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Badziak, M., Olechowski, M. & Szczerbiak, P. Blind spots for neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 179 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2016)179

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