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The technibaryon constitutes a possible dark matter candidate. Such a particle with electroweak quantum numbers is already nearly ruled out as the dominant component of the galactic dark matter by nuclear recoil experiments. Here, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 John Bagnasco , Michael Dine , Scott Thomas

Neutron stars offer powerful astrophysical laboratories to probe the properties of dark matter. Gradual accumulation of heavy, non-annihilating dark matter in neutron stars can lead to the formation of comparable-mass black holes, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Anupam Ray

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

We discuss higher dimensional effective operators describing interactions between fermionic dark matter and Standard Model particles. They are typically suppressed compared to the leading order effective operators, which can explain why no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin B. Krauss , Stefano Morisi , Werner Porod , Walter Winter

We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze

We present a model of dark matter as a superconducting fluid of Cooper pairs of right handed neutrinos or of vector-like quarks. The superconducting dark matter is induced by attractive channels in the Standard Model Higgs and color sectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Stephon Alexander , Heliudson Bernardo , Humberto Gilmer

In this review of Dark Matter we review dark matter as sterile neutrinos, fermions, with their present and possibly future detection via neutrino Oscillations. We review the creation of Dark Matter via interactions with the Dark Energy…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Leonard S. Kisslinger , Debasish Das

A large experimental program is underway to extend the sensitivity of direct detection experiments, searching for interaction of Dark Matter with nuclei, down to the neutrino floor. However, such experiments are becoming increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-28 Sebastian Baum , Andrzej K. Drukier , Katherine Freese , Maciej Górski , Patrick Stengel

We consider a class of fermionic dark matter candidates that are charged under both the SU(2)$_L$ and U(1)$_Y$ gauge interactions. In this case a certain amount of dark matter-Higgs couplings, which can split the dark matter into a pair of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-08 Natsumi Nagata , Satoshi Shirai

In a seminal paper now a decade old, it was shown that dark matter detectors geared at probing interactions with nucleons could also be used to probe dark matter interactions with electrons. In this work, we show that new detector concepts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Sinéad M. Griffin , Guy Daniel Hadas , Yonit Hochberg , Katherine Inzani , Benjamin V. Lehmann

We investigate the ability of the upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) neutrino experiment to detect new physics phenomena beyond the standard, three-massive-neutrinos paradigm; namely the existence of a fourth, sterile neutrino or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-19 Kevin J. Kelly

We consider the prospects for the detection of relatively light dark matter through direct annihilation to neutrinos. We specifically focus on the detection possibilities of water Cherenkov and liquid scintillator neutrino detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Jason Kumar , John G. Learned , Stefanie Smith

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

We study a simple Dirac fermion dark matter model in U(1)$_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ theory. The new light gauge boson $X$ plays important roles in both dark matter physics and the explanation for the muon $g-2$ anomaly. The observed dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Kento Asai , Shohei Okawa , Koji Tsumura

We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

Dark matter candidates arising in models of particle physics incorporating weak scale supersymmetry may produce detectable signals through their annihilation into neutrinos, photons, or positrons. A large number of relevant experiments are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev , Frank Wilczek

New physics beyond the Standard Model can lead to extra matter effects on neutrino oscillation if the new interactions distinguish among the three flavors of neutrino. In a previous paper, we argued that a long-baseline neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-07 Minako Honda , Yee Kao , Naotoshi Okamura , Alexey Pronin , Tatsu Takeuchi

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF), planned to operate near the ATLAS interaction point at the LHC, offers exciting new terrain to explore neutrino properties at TeV energy scales. It will reach an unprecedented regime for terrestrial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-12 Kevin J. Kelly , Felix Kling , Douglas Tuckler , Yue Zhang

Dark matter (DM) is added to the Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) mechanism, and conditions for its successful freezeout identified. Requesting the FN scale $\Lambda_{\text{FN}}$ to be the cutoff of the theory renders freezeout scenarios surprisingly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-04 Carlos Alvarado , Fatemeh Elahi , Nirmal Raj

A general analysis is performed on the dimension-six operators mixing an almost hidden Z' to the Standard Model (SM), when the Z' communicates with the SM via heavy mediators. These are fermions charged under both Z' and the SM, while all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Emilian Dudas , Lucien Heurtier , Yann Mambrini , Bryan Zaldivar