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Revisiting the Inert Scalar Dark Matter with Vector-like Quarks

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Pith's one-line read Adding a $Z_2$-odd vector-like quark to the inert doublet model opens new annihilation channels that reconcile heavy, compressed scalar dark matter with the observed relic abundance and direct-detection limits.

desk verdict Useful scan of compressed high-mass IDM with a Z2-odd VLQ; the central relic-dilution mechanism is plausible but the chemical-equilibrium assumption is asserted rather than checked. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.17719 v2 pith:QAADLCCX submitted 2024-12-23 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

Prasanta Kumar Das , Shyamashish Dey , Saumyen Kundu , Santosh Kumar Rai This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper argues that adding a $Z_2$-odd singlet vector-like quark to the inert doublet model (IDM) makes the compressed, heavy dark-matter region viable. In the pure IDM, dark-matter masses above about 550 GeV with nearly degenerate inert scalars are overabundant, and the obvious fix of raising the Higgs-DM coupling $\lambda_L$ is blocked by direct-detection bounds. The vector-like quark opens new annihilation and coannihilation channels, most importantly strong $\xi\xi\to$ SM annihilations that, while the dark sector stays in equilibrium, drain the whole $Z_2$-odd sector and dilute the DM relic. With this new leverage, $\lambda_L$ can be as small as $10^{-3}$ and DM masses around 800--1000 GeV satisfy the Planck relic abundance while evading current direct-detection limits, with collider signatures the LHC can reach.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the extended effective thermally averaged annihilation cross-section, Eq. (4.4), which adds DM-VLQ coannihilation and VLQ-VLQ annihilation terms to the pure IDM coannihilation sum. The mechanism that makes the high-mass region work is chemical equilibrium within the $Z_2$-odd sector: because $\xi\bar{\xi}\to$ SM is a strong process, $\xi$'s number density drops rapidly, and if the dark-sector species maintain their equilibrium fractions through conversion reactions, the scalar DM abundance is dragged down with it. This is the Type-A dilution regime; Type-B and Type-C regimes, where DM-VLQ coannihilation and VLQ-mediated annihilation processes dominate respectively, provide additional reduction of the relic density at moderate and large $y_\xi$. The same parameter controls the collider signal: the VLQ decays to a third-generation quark plus an inert scalar, producing jets and missing transverse energy.

What would settle it

Solve the coupled Boltzmann equations for the individual number densities of $\eta_D^0$, $\eta_D^A$, $\eta_D^\pm$, and $\xi$ in a Type-A benchmark without assuming equilibrium fractions; if any dark-sector conversion rate falls below the Hubble rate during freeze-out, the relic is not diluted and the benchmark fails. A collider counterpart is a search for a third-generation quark partner in the jets-plus-missing-energy channel: excluding $m_\xi$ in the 600--1000 GeV range at the predicted pair-production cross-sections would rule out the central parameter space.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a $Z_2$-odd singlet vector-like quark $\xi$ with a Yukawa coupling to the inert doublet and the third-generation quark doublet restores the compressed inert doublet model at high DM masses. In the pure IDM the compressed region above roughly 550 GeV is overabundant because annihilation into weak gauge bosons is weakened by a destructive interference between the four-point contact diagram and scalar-mediated diagrams. With the VLQ, the effective annihilation cross-section gains three types of contributions---VLQ pair annihilation through QCD, DM-VLQ coannihilation, and VLQ-mediated t-channel enhancements---with the relative weights set by the Yukawa coupling $y_\xi$ and the DM-VLQ mass gap. In the Type-A parameter region the quark's strong annihilation to SM quarks depletes the common dark sector, diluting the scalar DM relic; the benchmark points show DM masses of 800 and 1000 GeV with small inert-scalar splittings and $\lambda_L\simeq 0.001$--$0.01$ giving $\Omega h^2\simeq 0.12$ and spin-independent cross-sections around $10^{-47}\,\text{cm}^2$.

Load-bearing premise

The whole mechanism rests on the assumption that the inert-scalar DM and the vector-like quark stay in chemical equilibrium during freeze-out, so the quark's rapid strong annihilations drag the DM relic down with it; if the conversion reactions that enforce this equilibrium are slower than the expansion of the Universe in some parameter regions, the predicted relic density would not be diluted.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Compressed IDM spectra with DM masses in the 550--1000 GeV range, inert-scalar splittings of a few GeV, and tiny $\lambda_L$ become consistent with both the observed relic density and current direct-detection limits.
  • The vector-like quark masses that produce the correct relic density sit close to the DM mass, with DM-VLQ mass gaps of roughly 35--120 GeV in the benchmark scans, and the recast lower bounds $m_\xi>550$ (650) GeV for top-like (bottom-like) quarks put much of this region within LHC reach.
  • The model predicts associated and pair production of the VLQ at the LHC, with final states containing top or bottom quarks plus missing energy from inert scalars; the paper reports pair-production cross-sections up to order a picobarn but leaves a full search strategy for future work.
  • Indirect-detection constraints from gamma-ray telescopes do not restrict the new allowed region in the 500--1000 GeV DM mass range considered, so the model's main observable test is at colliders.
  • Depending on $y_\xi$, the VLQ decay can be prompt or long-lived, which changes the collider signature from prompt jets plus missing energy to displaced vertices.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This suggests a general recipe: any strongly interacting $Z_2$-odd partner kept in chemical equilibrium with a weakly interacting WIMP can dilute an otherwise overabundant relic, so similar rescues should work in other minimal dark-matter models with a colored companion.
  • Because the benchmark region has $\lambda_L\sim10^{-3}$, the spin-independent direct-detection signal falls toward the neutrino floor; if no collider signal appears first, a low-threshold or direction-sensitive experiment would be needed to distinguish the DM signal from neutrinos.
  • A decisive internal check would be to solve the full coupled Boltzmann equations for each dark-sector species without assuming fixed equilibrium fractions; if the conversion rates are not fast enough in Type-A regions, the relic density would not be diluted as claimed and the allowed benchmarks would shift to larger $y_\xi$ or smaller DM-VLQ mass gaps.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies an extension of the inert doublet model (IDM) by a Z2-odd singlet vector-like quark (VLQ) that couples to the inert doublet and the third-generation SM quarks. The authors implement the model with SARAH/SPheno and compute dark matter observables with MicrOMEGAs. They claim that the VLQ opens new (co)annihilation channels, in particular strong VLQ pair annihilation, which dilutes the dark matter relic density for compressed IDM spectra at high DM masses (above about 550 GeV) while allowing a small Higgs-portal coupling lambda_L to evade direct detection bounds. The paper presents scans, benchmark points with relic density and direct detection cross sections, indirect detection constraints, and an LHC collider outlook for single and pair production of the VLQ.

Significance. If the central claim is correct, the model resolves a known difficulty of the pure IDM (overabundant dark matter in the compressed high-mass region) and offers distinctive LHC signatures through VLQ production with jets plus missing energy. The paper uses standard, publicly available numerical tools and provides benchmark points that satisfy relic density and direct detection constraints, which is a useful step for model viability. However, the numerical results are not shipped as input files or code, and no validation against published IDM relic-density calculations is shown. More importantly, the main mechanism depends on an unverified chemical-equilibrium assumption between the dark matter and the VLQ; if that assumption fails, the benchmark relic densities would shift. For these reasons the significance is conditional on a technical check that the manuscript currently does not provide.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 4.5, Eq. (4.4)] The central relic-dilution mechanism rests on the assumption that all Z2-odd species remain in chemical equilibrium during freeze-out, so that the rapid strong process xi xi -> SM SM drains the whole dark sector. The paper states this condition qualitatively ("provided the interaction ... is faster than the Hubble expansion rate") but never computes Gamma_conv/H for any benchmark. For BP-3 and BP-4 (y_xi = 0.01), the conversion eta0 <-> xi is mediated by the Yukawa coupling of Eq. (2.2) to the top quark only, which is Boltzmann-suppressed at T_f ~ m_eta/25, and the alternative route through eta+ + b -> ... is not quantified. If Gamma_conv < H for these points, the effective single-species Boltzmann equation is invalid and the quoted Omega h^2 values in Table 3 are not reliable. Please provide a calculation of the relevant conversion rates for the benchmark points (or over the scan region) and explicitly check the equilibrium condition Gamma_conv >> H during freeze-out.
  2. [Sec. 3, Eq. (3.12)] The lower bound m_xi > 550 (650) GeV for a top-like (bottom-like) VLQ is quoted from a "recast" of squark searches, but no recast details are given, and reference [45] is a general ATLAS SUSY overview rather than a specific search with stated event selections and efficiencies. The collider outlook and the choice of VLQ masses in the benchmark points depend on this bound. Please provide the original search reference, the recast procedure (signal regions, efficiencies, background estimates), and the resulting exclusion limit, or state clearly that this is an approximate estimate.
  3. [Table 3 and Sec. 4.3] The numerical results are not independently reproducible from the manuscript: no SARAH model files, MicrOMEGAs input cards, or benchmark validation against published IDM relic-density calculations are provided. Since the central claim is a numerical statement about relic density and direct detection cross sections, the absence of these materials makes it impossible to verify the benchmark points in Table 3. Please make the model and input files available, and show at least one validation point against a known pure-IDM relic-density calculation.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Fig. 1 caption] The caption does not identify which panel corresponds to the pure IDM and which to the IDM+VLQ case; the text refers to the "right panel" but the caption is ambiguous. Please add explicit panel labels.
  2. [Table 3] The entries in the lambda_L column for BP-3 and BP-4 (e.g., "0.238 (0.03)0.114") are unclear; please separate the pure-IDM and IDM+VLQ values into distinct columns with clear headings.
  3. [Eq. (4.4)] The symbol Delta_xi is used but never defined; please define it as (m_xi - m_eta0_D)/m_eta0_D alongside the definitions of Delta_i in Eq. (4.2).
  4. [Sec. 4.3] There are several typos, e.g., "coannihhilating" should be "coannihilating" and "their is a mass-splitting" should be "there is a mass-splitting."
  5. [References] Reference [31] is missing bibliographic details (journal, volume, pages); please complete it.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: relic density is solved externally and benchmarks are constrained, not predicted from their own outputs.

full rationale

This paper's claimed derivation chain is self-contained and non-circular. The relic density is not a fitted output: it is obtained by solving the standard Boltzmann equation (4.1) with the effective cross-section (4.4) using the external MicrOMEGAs solver on SARAH-generated model files; the Planck value is an external constraint used to select benchmark points, not an input that is then re-derived. The direct-detection cross-sections in Table 3 and Figures 1, 10 are computed after fixing masses and couplings, so they are conditional predictions of the chosen benchmarks, not quantities that define those benchmarks. The only self-citation (ref. [26], S.K. Rai) is an illustrative example of a vector-like quark in an E6 GUT and plays no role in the relic-density argument. The Type-A dilution mechanism in Sec. 4.5 does rest on a physical assumption—that the Z2-odd species remain in chemical equilibrium so that ξξ→SM drains the whole sector—but that is an unverified dynamical condition, not a circular reduction; if it fails the quoted benchmarks would shift, which is a correctness risk rather than circularity. No equation is defined in terms of its own output, no parameter fitted to a subset is renamed as a prediction, and no load-bearing result is imported from the authors' prior work.

Assumptions & free parameters 7 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The quantitative results rest on the standard thermal WIMP framework, on the assumed exact Z2 symmetry, on the single-generation flavor assumption for the VLQ, and on public numerical code whose outputs are not shipped. The free parameters are scanned or chosen to satisfy relic and direct detection constraints.

free parameters (7)
  • m_eta0_D (DM mass) = scanned over roughly 500-1200 GeV
    Central DM mass controlling relic density and direct detection.
  • Delta0 = m_etaA - m_eta0 = fixed at 0.06, 0.5, 1, 3, 5 GeV in different scans
    Mass splitting between CP-odd scalar and DM; kept small to maintain compressed spectrum and avoid inelastic direct detection.
  • Delta+ = m_eta+ - m_eta0 = fixed at 1, 2, 3, 5 GeV in different scans
    Mass splitting between charged scalar and DM; small values emphasize coannihilation.
  • lambda_L = scanned down to 0; e.g. 10^-3 in Figs. 7-9 and 0.03 in BP-3/4
    DM-Higgs coupling; set small to evade direct detection while VLQ supplies the necessary annihilation.
  • y_xi (VLQ Yukawa coupling) = scanned over 0.1-1.0; benchmark values such as 0.55 and 0.6
    Controls VLQ-mediated annihilation and coannihilation; chosen to satisfy relic density in benchmarks.
  • m_xi (VLQ mass) = set through mass gap Delta(m_xi - m_eta0) of 20-120 GeV
    Determines the exponential suppression of VLQ coannihilation and the production cross section.
  • lambda_2 = not varied; assumed positive and perturbative
    IDM quartic listed as a free parameter but not scanned; it does not enter the tree-level observables shown.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption An exact Z2 symmetry stabilizes the DM candidate and the VLQ.
    Section 2 postulates Z2 under which eta and xi are odd; this prevents decays and makes eta0_D stable, which is the basis of the DM candidate.
  • domain assumption The VLQ couples only to the third generation of SM quarks and does not mix with SM quarks.
    Section 2 imposes this to satisfy flavor constraints; if relaxed, flavor bounds and the phenomenology change.
  • standard math Thermal WIMP freeze-out with coannihilations (Griest-Seckel formalism) is the correct description.
    Equations 4.1-4.4 are the standard Boltzmann equations used to compute relic density.
  • domain assumption The outputs of SARAH, SPheno, MicrOMEGAs, and MadGraph are correct for this model.
    All quantitative claims rest on these public codes, whose model files and outputs are not provided; no analytic cross-checks or validation against published IDM benchmarks are shown.
  • domain assumption The LHC squark-search recast bound m_xi > 550 (650) GeV from ref. [45] applies to this Z2-odd VLQ.
    Section 3, Eq. 3.12 quotes a squark bound for quark plus neutralino final states and assumes it applies to a VLQ decaying to quark plus inert scalars; the recast procedure is not shown.
invented entities (1)
  • Z2-odd SU(2)L-singlet vector-like quark xi (top-like or bottom-like)
    purpose: Opens new annihilation and coannihilation channels that reduce the relic density of eta0_D in the compressed high-mass region and allow a smaller lambda_L, easing direct detection constraints.
    The particle is introduced by hand to solve the IDM relic problem. The paper provides no external evidence; the only handles are model-dependent collider cross sections and a recast squark-search bound, neither of which is an independent falsifiable prediction specific to this particle.

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abstract

The inert doublet model (IDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM), provides a scalar dark matter (DM) candidate that belongs to the additional Higgs doublet. The model faces challenges in achieving the correct relic abundance for compressed spectra and DM masses in the high-mass range. In this work we introduce a $Z_2$-odd singlet vector-like quark (VLQ) into the IDM framework that helps us alleviate these issues and provide new channels of contributions to the relic abundance. The VLQ not only enhances the DM relic abundance for masses above $~550$ GeV but also eases constraints from direct detection experiments by enabling smaller couplings between the inert scalars and the SM Higgs. We analyze the impact of the VLQ on DM phenomenology, including relic density, direct and indirect detection constraints. The results demonstrate that the extended IDM framework not only resolves existing limitations in the compressed spectrum but also offers exciting prospects for detection in current and future collider experiments.

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