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We study a model in which dark matter couples to the Standard Model through a dilaton of a sector with spontaneously broken approximate scale invariance. Scale invariance fixes the dilaton couplings to the Standard Model and dark matter fields, leaving three main free parameters: the symmetry breaking scale f, the dilaton mass m σ , and the dark matter mass m χ . We analyze the experimental constraints on the parameter space from collider, direct and indirect detection experiments including the effect of Sommerfeld enhancement, and show that dilaton exchange provides a consistent, calculable framework for cold dark matter with f, m σ , m χ of roughly similar magnitude and in the range ∼1 − 10 TeV. Direct and indirect detection experiments, notably future ground-based gamma ray and space-based cosmic ray measurements, can probe the model all the way to dark matter mass in the multi-TeV regime.
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Blum, K., Cliche, M., Csáki, C. et al. WIMP dark matter through the dilaton portal. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 99 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)099
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