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We study the experimental constraints on a model of a two-component dark matter, consisting of the QCD axion, and a scalar particle, both contributing to the dark matter relic abundance of the Universe. The global Peccei-Quinn symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-28 Suman Chatterjee , Anirban Das , Tousik Samui , Manibrata Sen

The Inert scalar Doublet Model (IDM) presents a simple yet elegant framework for a scalar dark sector where the lightest mode functions as a viable dark matter candidate under a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. With TeV-scale particles accessible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-11 Anupam Ghosh , Partha Konar , Chandrima Sen , Bhavya Thacker

The measurements of WMAP on the relic density of dark matter strongly constrain supersymmetric models. In mSUGRA where the neutralino LSP is mostly a bino only rather fine-tuned models survive. On the other hand the relic density upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Belanger , F. Boudjema , A. Cottrant , A. Pukhov , A. Semenov

We investigate a variation of the Simplest Little Higgs (SLH) model that is invariant under a discrete $\CZ_2$ symmetry. Our motivation for imposing this symmetry is the two dark matter candidates it implies, a scalar $\eta$ and a heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Martin

The introduction of electroweak multiplets that transform under any representation of the standard $SU(2)_L$ gauge group suggests the existence of electrically neutral stable particles capable of serving as cold dark matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Patricio Escalona , Sebastián Acevedo , Paulo Areyuna , Gonzalo Benítez-Irarrázabal , Pablo Solar , Alfonso Zerwekh

This study proposes a diagnostic mechanism based on the relic density topology to discriminate between the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), and the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Mohid Farhan

Within the Inert Doublet Model (IDM) there is a viable dark matter candidate. This simple model can provide a strong enough first order phase transition, which is required in order to account for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-31 Cesar Bonilla , Dorota Sokolowska , Neda Darvishi , J. Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz , Maria Krawczyk

We investigate direct detection rates for Dark Matter candidates arise in a $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ with an additional doublet Higgs proposed by Barbieri, Hall and Rychkov. We refer this model as `Heavy Higgs Model'. The Standard Model Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Debasish Majumdar , Ambar Ghosal

Serious searches for the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) have now begun. In this context, the most important questions that need to be addressed are: "To what extent can we constrain the WIMP models in the future?" and "What will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Shankha Banerjee , Shigeki Matsumoto , Kyohei Mukaida , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

The nature of dark matter remains a central unresolved problem in contemporary physics, motivating the exploration of well-defined extensions of the Standard Model. Among these, the Inert Doublet Model provides a minimal and theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Rameswar Sahu

The Inert Doublet Model relies on a discrete symmetry to prevent couplings of the new scalars to Standard Model fermions. This stabilizes the lightest inert state, which can then contribute to the observed dark matter density. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-24 Nikita Blinov , Jonathan Kozaczuk , David E. Morrissey , Alejandro de la Puente

The Inert Higgs Doublet model (IDM), assisted by Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry, offers a simple but natural framework of a dark sector that accommodates Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) and axion as dark matter components.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-20 Anupam Ghosh , Partha Konar

We analyze a simple extension of the Standard Model where the dark matter particle is a Dirac fermion that is mixture of a singlet and an SU(2) doublet. The model contains only four free parameters: the singlet and the doublet masses and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Carlos E. Yaguna

We consider a simplest extension of Standard Model in which a real SM gauge singlet scalar with an additional discrete symmetry $Z_2$ is introduced to SM. This additional scalar can be a viable candidate of cold dark matter since the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-18 Anirban Biswas , Debasish Majumdar

In this note, we discuss recent updates to a previous scan for the Inert Doublet Model, a two Higgs doublet model with a dark matter candidate. We explicitly show the inclusion of updated constraints on direct detection reduces the allowed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-02 Agnieszka Ilnicka , Maria Krawczyk , Tania Robens , Dorota Sokolowska

We present a novel new method for incorporating dark matter into little Higgs models in a way that can be applied to many existing models without introducing T-parity, while simultaneously alleviating precision constraints arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-11 Travis A. W. Martin , Alejandro de la Puente

We provide a unified presentation of extensions of the Minimal Dark Matter framework in which new fermionic electroweak multiplets are coupled to each other via the Standard Model Higgs doublet. We study systematically the generic features…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Pantelis Tziveloglou , Bryan Zaldivar

We analyse the excess in the $\gamma$-ray emission from the center of our galaxy observed by Fermi-LAT in terms of dark matter annihilation within the scalar Higgs portal model. In particular, we include the astrophysical uncertainties from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Alessandro Cuoco , Benedikt Eiteneuer , Jan Heisig , Michael Krämer

We discuss the constraints and phenomenology of the $Z_2 \times Z_2$ three Higgs doublet model (3HDM) with two inert scalars, originating two dark matter (DM) particles. We elucidate the competing vacua and we submit the model to all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Rafael Boto , Pedro N. Figueiredo , Jorge C. Romão , João P. Silva

Although the seesaw mechanism is a natural explanation for the small neutrino masses, there are cases when the Majorana mass terms for the right-handed neutrinos are not allowed due to symmetry. In that case, if neutrino-specific Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Seungwon Baek , Takaaki Nomura