Electroweak SU(2)_L doublet fermion dark matter with mass above 10^10 GeV (or 300 GeV if pseudo-Dirac) is produced by Boltzmann-suppressed freeze-in above the reheat temperature and evades direct detection while never thermalizing.
Massive Doublet Leptons
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Massive vector-like electroweak doublets are generic in many extensions of the standard model. Even though one member of the doublet is necessarily electrically charged these particles are not easily detected in collider experiments. The neutral and charged states within the doublet are split by electroweak symmetry breaking. In the absence of mixing with other states, the radiatively generated splitting is in the range 200 - 350 MeV for m > mZ/2. The charged state decays to the neutral one with an O(cm) decay length, predominantly by emission of a soft charged pion. The best possibility to detect these massive charged particles is to trigger on hard initial state radiation and search for two associated soft charged pions with displaced vertices. The mass reach for this process at LEPII is limited by luminosity rather than kinematics.
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Minimal Freeze-in Dark Matter: Reviving electroweak doublet dark matter with Boltzmann suppressed freeze-in
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Complementary Probes of Light Higgsinos: Electroweak Precision Measurements and Dark Matter Direct Detection
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Prospects for probing neutral vector-like leptons via pair production at muon collider
Simulations indicate a 6 TeV muon collider with 4 ab^{-1} can reach >5σ significance for neutral doublet VLLs of 1.3-3 TeV mass using 4j2μ and 2ℓ2μ + missing energy channels under polarized beams.