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A possible feature of the inert doublet model (IDM) is to provide a dark matter candidate together with an alteration of both direct and indirect collider constraints that allow for a heavy Higgs boson. We study the IDM in light of recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Michael Gustafsson , Sara Rydbeck , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Erik Lundstrom

The inert doublet model is a two-Higgs-doublet extension of the standard model that provides a minimal and versatile framework for frozen-out dark matter. Assuming standard cosmology, if the dark matter mass ranges between approximately 120…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Geneviève Bélanger , Nicolás Bernal , Andreas Goudelis , Alexander Pukhov

We discuss the constraints on the Dark Matter coming from the LHC Higgs data and WMAP relic density measurements for the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), which is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model providing a Dark Matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-16 Maria Krawczyk , Dorota Sokolowska , Pawel Swaczyna , Bogumila Swiezewska

The DAMA collaboration have claimed to detect particle dark matter (DM) via an annual modulation in their observed recoil event rate. This appears to be in strong disagreement with the null results of other experiments if interpreted in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 John March-Russell , Christopher McCabe , Matthew McCullough

The lightest neutral scalar in the Inert Higgs Doublet Model is a natural candidate for WIMP dark matter. In this paper, we analyzed the dark matter relic density in the Inert Higgs Doublet model. Various theoretical and experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Ethan M. Dolle , Shufang Su

The Inert Doublet Model (IDM) is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model that can provide a viable dark matter (DM) candidate. Despite its simplicity, it predicts a versatile phenomenology both for cosmology and for the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-15 Andreas Goudelis

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and axions are arguably the most compelling dark matter candidates in the literature. Could they coexist as dark matter particles? More importantly, can they be incorporated in a well motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Alexandre Alves , Daniel A. Camargo , Alex G. Dias , Robinson Longas , Celso C. Nishi , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

Inert Doublet Model (IDM) is a minimal extension of the Standard Model with the second scalar doublet that may provide a Dark Matter candidate. In this paper we consider the different variants of the evolution of the Universe after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 Maria Krawczyk , Dorota Sokolowska

Extending the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) to explain small neutrino masses via the inverse seesaw mechanism can lead to a new light supersymmetric scalar partner which can play the role of inelastic dark matter (iDM). It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Haipeng An , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Yi Cai , R. N. Mohapatra

We discuss the parameter space of the Inert Doublet Model, a two Higgs doublet model with a dark matter candidate. An extensive set of theoretical and experimental constraints on this model is considered, where both collider as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-02 Agnieszka Ilnicka , Maria Krawczyk , Tania Robens

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 nature of dark matter (DM) particles and the mechanism that provides their measured relic abundance are currently unknown. In this paper we investigate inert scalar and vector like fermion doublet DM candidates with a charge asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Chiara Arina , Narendra Sahu

We study a $Z_2 \times Z'_2$ symmetric 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM), wherein two of the doublets are inert and one is active (thus denoted in literature as I(2+1)HDM), yielding a two-component Dark Matter (DM) sector. The two DM candidates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 J. Hernandez-Sanchez , V. Keus , S. Moretti , D. Rojas-Ciofalo , D. Sokolowska

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

$pp \to W^{\pm} h, Zh$ processes at the LHC are studied in the framework of the inert doublet model (IDM). To quantify the effects of the IDM and their observability in these processes we revisit the NLO (QCD and EW) predictions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Dazhuang He , Yu Zhang , Fawzi Boudjema , Hao Sun

In this thorough study we focus on the indirect detection of Dark Matter (DM) through the confrontation of unexplained galactic and extragalactic $\gamma$-ray signatures for a low mass DM model. For this, we consider a simple Higgs-portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar

In this work we consider a model for particle dark matter where an extra inert Higgs doublet and an additional scalar singlet is added to the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian. The dark matter candidate is obtained from only the inert doublet.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Amit Dutta Banik , Debasish Majumdar

We propose a minimal extension of the Standard Model to accommodate two-component dark matter (DM) and light neutrino mass. The symmetry of the Standard Model is enhanced by an unbroken $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}'_2$ such that being…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Debasish Borah , Rishav Roshan , Arunansu Sil

We explore extensions of inelastic Dark Matter and Magnetic inelastic Dark Matter where the WIMP can scatter to a tower of heavier states. We assume a WIMP mass $m_\chi \sim \mathcal{O}(1-100)$ GeV and a constant splitting between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Kunal Kumar , Arjun Menon , Tim M. P. Tait

Many observations suggest that much of the matter of the universe is non-baryonic. Recently, the DAMA NaI dark matter direct detection experiment reported an annual modulation in their event rate consistent with a WIMP relic. However, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 David Smith , Neal Weiner