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Extension of the Standard Model with a SU(2) dark sector

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dc.date.accessioned 2016-03-21T08:09:38Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:04:04Z
dc.date.available 2016-03-21T08:09:38Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:04:04Z
dc.date.issued 2016-03-21T08:09:38Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/5385 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/5385
dc.title Extension of the Standard Model with a SU(2) dark sector en
ethesis.discipline Theoretical Physics en
ethesis.discipline Teoreettinen fysiikka fi
ethesis.discipline Teoretisk fysik sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/C29de80f-21cd-424a-b706-b564d642b058
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/3acb09b1-e6a2-4faa-b677-1a1b03285b66
ethesis.department Institutionen för fysik sv
ethesis.department Department of Physics en
ethesis.department Fysiikan laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Vazquez Muiños, Henrique
dct.issued 2016
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract In this thesis we consider an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a SU(2) symmetric Dark Sector, and study its viability as a dark matter (DM) model. In the dark sector, a hidden Higgs mechanism generates three massive gauge bosons, which are the DM candidates of the model. We allow a small coupling between the SM Higgs and the scalar of the dark sector, such that there is a scalar mixing. We study the new interactions in the model and analyse the consequences of the scalar mixing: new possible decays of the Higgs into DM, Higgs decay rates and production cross sections different from SM predictions, and possible interactions between DM and normal matter. We study the evolution of the DM abundance from the early universe to the present and compare the relic densities that the model yields with the experimental value measured by the Planck satellite. We compute the decay rates for the Higgs in the model and test if they are consistent with the experimental data from Atlas, CMS and Tevatron. We calculate the cross section for the interaction between DM and normal matter and compare it with the data from the latest direct detection experiments LUX and XENON100. We discuss the impact of the experimental constraints on the parameter space of the model, and find the regions that give the best fit to the experimental data. In this work we show that the agreement with the experiments is optimal when both the DM candidates and the dark scalar are heavier than the Higgs boson. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112251966
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