Contact interactions and top-philic scalar dark matter

Contact interactions and top-philic scalar dark matter

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Glass Vase Abstract We investigate the phenomenology of a scalar top-philic dark matter candidate when adding a dimension-five contact interaction term, as motivated by possible underlying extensions of the Standard Model such as composite Higgs models.We show that the presence of contact interactions can have a major impact on the Moleskin Caps dark matter relic density as well as on its direct and indirect detection prospects, while the collider phenomenology of the model is unaffected.This underlines the complementarity of collider and cosmological constraints on dark matter models.