Dark Matter as the Z 2 Partner of the Standard Model Higgs Boson

arXiv:2609.02505 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-05

Comments: 6 pages; v2: added a note discussing the concurrent solar-capture constraint

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Standard Model — 5× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Archetype — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• The anthropic principle and the mass scale of the Standard Model
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• Dark Matter implications from the LZ, PandaX-4T and XENONnT Data
• New constraints on inelastic dark matter from IceCube
• Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event

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