Composite dark matter phenomenology in the presence of lighter degrees of freedom

Abstract

Scalar singlet dark matter in anomaly-free composite Higgs models is accompanied by exotic particles to which the dark matter annihilates. The latter can therefore freeze out even in the absence of couplings to the Standard Model. In this regime, both current and future direct detection constraints can be avoided. Moreover, due to the different decay modes of the extra particles, the dark matter candidate can even escape indirect detection constraints. Assessing this issue requires dedicated simulations of the gamma ray spectrum, that we provide in the present article in the context of $SO(7)/SO(6)$. For the parameter space region that evades constraints from dark matter experiments, we develop new analyses to be performed at a future 100 TeV collider based on the search of the new particles produced in the decay of heavy vector-like quarks.