Leptophilic Dark Matter at Linear Colliders

Abstract

We discuss model-independent collider constraints on the effective couplings of leptophilic dark matter (LDM), considering its production at a future electron-positron linear collider, with both polarized and unpolarized beam options, in the mono-photon and mono-$Z$ channels. We show that the future collider constraints are largely complementary to the direct and indirect detection limits on LDM, and can potentially provide the best-ever LDM sensitivity in the low-mass regime (below $\sim$ 10 GeV).

Comments: 20 pages; based on arXiv:2110.06903; to appear in the proceedings of the 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories (MG16)