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Karim Ghorbani

Karim Ghorbani

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1441-0014
Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
Address: Arak University
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Research

Title
Secluded scalar dark matter and the muon anomalous magnetic moment
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
dark matter, muon anomalous magnetic moment, relic density, DM-electron elastic scattering
Year
2024
Journal J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.
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Researchers Karim Ghorbani

Abstract

We consider a dark matter (DM) model with a singlet scalar, χ, as our DM candidate, which is secluded from the standard model (SM) and annihilates to the singlet scalar, f, via a contact interaction. The singlet scalar, f, has a leptophilic interaction with the SM leptons and may decay leptonically at tree level, and decays into a pair of photons at loop level. The focus of this work is to consider DM masses below 10 GeV. A viable secluded region is found in the parameter space after imposing the observed relic density. There is a one- loop interaction between scalar DM and the atomic electron in this model. We then apply the available direct detection bounds from Xenon10, Xenon1T and DarkSide on the DM-electron elastic scattering cross section. While the model can explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment, we apply bounds from current and future lepton collider experiments.