Status of $\mathbb{Z}_3$-NMSSM featuring a light bino-dominated LSP and a light singlet-like scalar under the LZ Experiment

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.14664
• Publication Date: 2025-01-01
• Authors: Zhou, Haijing; Ban, Guangning
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); FOS: Physical sciences

In the presence of a light singlet-like scalar state, the Bino-dominated dark matter (DM) candidate in the $\mathbb{Z}_3$-NMSSM exhibits significant differences from its counterpart in the MSSM, both in terms of intrinsic properties and mechanisms governing DM relic density and detection. Motivated by recent advancements in particle physics experiments, we systematically analyzed the implications of these developments for the $\mathbb{Z}_3$-NMSSM framework featuring a light bino-dominated DM candidate and a light singlet-like scalar, ensuring theoretical consistency with empirical observations. Of paramount relevance are the latest direct detection constraints from the LZ experiment, SUSY searches at the LHC, and precision measurements of the Muon g-2 anomaly at Fermilab, which collectively impose complementary constraints on the model's parameter space. Our investigation utilized the MultiNest algorithm to perform a rigorous parameter space scan, informed by the LZ(2022) experimental limits, while incorporating constraints from LHC Higgs analyses, Muon g-2 data, and B-physics observables. The results demonstrate that current experimental bounds, particularly stringent limits on SI and SD DM-nucleus scattering cross-sections, coupled with LHC exclusion limits on electroweakinos, strongly disfavor this scenario. Nonetheless, the model retains the capacity to naturally reproduce the Z boson mass and Standard Model-like Higgs boson mass, explain the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment, and generate substantial corrections to the W boson mass. These findings exclusively manifest within the NMSSM framework, arising from the interplay between bino-dominated DM and singlino components, mediated through indispensable higgsino participation.<br/>35 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.04026, arXiv:1712.09873, arXiv:2203.08206, arXiv:2312.01594, arXiv:2303.02360, arXiv:0910.1785 by other authors<br/>