Invisible Axion-Like Dark Matter from Electroweak Bosonic Seesaw

Abstract

We explore a model based on the classically-scale invariant standard model (SM) with a strongly coupled vector-like dynamics, which is called hypercolor (HC). The scale symmetry is dynamically broken by the vector-like condensation at the TeV scale, so that the SM Higgs acquires the negative mass-squared by the bosonic seesaw mechanism to realize the electroweak symmetry breaking. An elementary pseudoscalar $S$ is introduced to give masses for the composite Nambu-Goldstone bosons (HC pions): the HC pion can be a good target to explore through a diphoton channel at the LHC. As the consequence of the bosonic seesaw, the fluctuating mode of $S$, which we call $s$, develops tiny couplings to the SM particles and is predicted to be very light. The $s$ predominantly decays to diphoton and can behave as an invisible axion-like dark matter. The mass of the $s$-dark matter is constrained by currently available cosmological and astrophysical limits to be $10^{-4}\mathrm{eV}\lesssim m_s\lesssim 1\mathrm{eV}$. We find that the sufficient amount of relic abundance for the $s$-dark matter can be accumulated via the coherent oscillation. The detection potential in microwave cavity experiments is also addressed.

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures, v2: correspond to the published version accepted in PRD