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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

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. The aim of this paper is to determine whether…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Celine Boehm , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

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

We consider the implications of fermionic asymmetric dark matter for a "mixed neutron star" composed of ordinary baryons and dark fermions. We find examples, where for a certain range of dark fermion mass -- when it is less than that of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 I. Goldman , R. N. Mohapatra , S. Nussinov , D. Rosenbaum , V. Teplitz

If dark matter is light, it may be due to a seesaw mechanism just as neutrinos are. It is postulated that both originate from the same type of heavy fermion anchors, either singlets or triplets. In the latter case, a shift of the $W$ mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-16 Ernest Ma

Both collider searches and direct detections are promising approaches to probe fermionic dark matter. In this paper, we study signatures of four-fermion contact operators involving a dark fermion, an electron, and a quark pair. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Kai Ma

We survey the sensitivity of past and present neutrino experiments to MeV-GeV scale dark matter, and find that these experiments possess novel sensitivity that has not yet fully explored. NO$\nu$A and BEBC are found to rule out the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Luca Buonocore , Patrick deNiverville , Claudia Frugiuele

We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model which advocates a dark neutrino sector charged under a hidden $U(1)^\prime$. We show that neutrino masses can arise radiatively in this model. The observed values are compatible with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-10 Peter Ballett , Matheus Hostert , Silvia Pascoli

We consider the prospects for liquid scintillation experiments (with a focus on KamLAND) to detect the flux of electron neutrinos arising from dark matter annihilation in the core of the sun. We show that, with data already taken, KamLAND…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Jason Kumar , John G. Learned , Michinari Sakai , Stefanie Smith

Indirect detection of dark matter particles, i.e. the detection of annihilation or decay products of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, has entered a pivotal phase as experiments reach sensitivities that probe the most interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-10 Jan Conrad

We investigate a low-reheating-temperature freeze-in scenario within a minimal model of fermionic dark matter interacting through a pseudoscalar mediator. In this setup, dark matter is produced via the decay of the pseudoscalar, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-27 Amir Amiri , Bastian Diaz Saez , Kilian Möhling

We report a search on a sub-MeV fermionic dark matter absorbed by electrons with an outgoing active neutrino using the 0.63 tonne-year exposure collected by PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. No significant signals are observed over the…

In this work we explore the possibility of new light fermionic particles with millicharge or electromagnetic form factor interactions and their underground production via an electron beam in the 100 MeV range and their subsequent detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Helmut Eberl , Maximilian Fahrecker , Josef Pradler

We present the effective field theory for dark matter interactions with the visible sector that is valid at scales of O(1 GeV). Starting with an effective theory describing the interactions of fermionic and scalar dark matter with quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-30 Fady Bishara , Joachim Brod , Benjamin Grinstein , Jure Zupan

We consider an electro-weak scale model for Dark Matter (DM) and radiative neutrino mass generation. Despite the leptophilic nature of DM with no direct couplings to quarks and gluons, scattering with nuclei is induced at the 1-loop level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Daniel Schmidt , Thomas Schwetz , Takashi Toma

In this work, we make a detailed discussion on the phenomenology of the scotogenic Dirac model, which could accommodate the Dirac neutrino mass and dark matter. We have studied the LFV processes in this model, which are mediated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-11 Shu-Yuan Guo , Zhi-Long Han

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) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

In this paper, we perform a detail analysis on leptogenesis and dark matter form low scale seesaw. In the framework of $\nu$2HDM, we further introduce one scalar singlet $\phi$ and one Dirac fermion singlet $\chi$, which are charged under a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Ang Liu , Zhi-Long Han , Yi Jin , Fa-Xin Yang