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In this article we discuss a general effective-theory description of a multi-component dark sector with an unspecified non-trivial symmetry and its interactions with the Standard Model generated by the exchange of heavy mediators. We then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Vannia Gonzalez Macias , Jose Wudka

Several models of dark matter motivate the concept of hidden sectors consisting of SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y singlet fields. The interaction between our and hidden matter could be transmitted by new abelian U'(1) gauge bosons A' mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-22 S. N. Gninenko

The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, are expected to have significant sensitivity to light weakly coupled hidden sector particles. Here we study the capability of the SBN experiments to probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Brian Batell , Joshua Berger , Ahmed Ismail

A secluded U(1) gauge field, kinetically mixed with Standard Model hypercharge, provides a `portal' mediating interactions with a hidden sector at the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of WIMP dark matter. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Brian Batell , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a hidden sector charged under a dark local $U(1)'$ gauge group, accounting simultaneously for light neutrino masses and the observed Dark Matter relic abundance. The model contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-14 Julia Gehrlein , Mathias Pierre

We analyze a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a dark sector composed of a scalar and a fermion, both singlets under the SM gauge group but charged under a dark sector symmetry group. Sterile neutrinos, which are singlets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-13 Miguel Escudero , Nuria Rius , Verónica Sanz

The model of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is one of the well-motivated models beyond the standard model (BSM) from both theoretical and phenomenological point of views. It is an indispensable ingredient to explain the puzzle of tiny…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Kingman Cheung , Yi-Lun Chung , Hiroyuki Ishida , Chih-Ting Lu

We propose to search for a heavy neutral lepton (HNL), that is also know as sterile neutrino, in electron colliders running with the center-of-mass energies at few GeV, including BESIII, Belle II, and the proposed Super Tau Charm Factory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Yu Zhang , Mao Song , Ran Ding , Liangwen Chen

The mirror twin Higgs framework allows for a natural Higgs mass while being consistent with collider bounds on colored symmetry partners to standard model quarks. This mechanism relies crucially on a discrete symmetry which relates each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-04 Fady Bishara , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We investigate the prospects for detecting a hidden sector at an $e^+ e^-$ collider. The hidden sector is assumed to be composed of invisible particles that carry no charges under the Standard Model gauge interactions, and whose primary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Zackaria Chacko , Yanou Cui , Sungwoo Hong

Assuming dark matter is absolutely stable due to unbroken dark gauge symmetry and singlet operators are portals to the dark sector, we present a simple extension of the standard seesaw model that can accommodate all the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-08 S. Baek , P. Ko , Wan-Il Park

The future high-energy muon colliders, featuring both high energy and low background, could play a critical role in our searches for new physics. The smallness of neutrino mass is a puzzle of particle physics. Broad classes of solutions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Peiran Li , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu

We consider the sensitivity of the DUNE experiment to a heavy neutral lepton, HNL (also known as sterile neutrino) in the mass range from a few MeV to a few GeV, interacting with the Standard Model via a transition magnetic moment to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Thomas Schwetz , Albert Zhou , Jing-Yu Zhu

The existence of light sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range with relatively large mixing angles with the active neutrinos has been proposed for a variety of reasons, including to improve the fit to the LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-04 Jinrui Huang , Ann E Nelson

We show that the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole model in the hidden sector with Higgs portal interaction makes a viable dark matter model, where monopole and massive vector dark matter (VDM) are stable due to topological conservation and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Seungwon Baek , P. Ko , Wan-Il Park

We investigate the atmospheric production and subsequent detection of sub-GeV dark mesons within the framework of a confining dark sector coupled to the Standard Model (SM) via a $U(1)_{\text{D}}$ vector portal. High-energy cosmic ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Zirong Chen , Dan Chi , Jinmian Li , Junle Pei

We estimate the sensitivity of the DUNE experiment to new physics particles interacting with neutrinos, considering the dipole portal to heavy neutral leptons and a neutrinophilic scalar with lepton-number $2$ as examples. We demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Maksym Ovchynnikov , Thomas Schwetz , Jing-Yu Zhu

We demonstrate that current and planned underground neutrino experiments could offer a powerful probe of few-MeV dark matter when combined with a nearby high-intensity low-to-medium energy electron accelerator. This experimental setup, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Maxim Pospelov

We discuss neutrino magnetic moments as a way of constraining physics beyond the Standard Model. In fact, new physics at the TeV scale can easily generate observable neutrino magnetic moments, and there exists a multitude of ways of probing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-17 Vedran Brdar , Admir Greljo , Joachim Kopp , Toby Opferkuch

We explore the neutrino portal dark matter (DM) at its minimum of field content having two dark sector particles coupled to a right-handed neutrino. Assuming the feeble nature of their interactions with the standard model (SM) particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-11 Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay , Eung Jin Chun , Rusa Mandal