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We study the effect of lepton number violation (LNV) on baryon asymmetry, generated in the early Universe, in the presence of a dark sector with a global symmetry $U(1)_X$, featuring asymmetric dark matter (ADM). We show that in general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Mads T. Frandsen , Claudia Hagedorn , Wei-Chih Huang , Emiliano Molinaro , Heinrich Päs

In models of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) the relic density is set by a particle asymmetry in an analogous manner to the baryons. Here we explore the scenario in which ADM decouples from the Standard Model thermal bath during an early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Prolay Chanda , James Unwin

Dark matter could have a dissipative asymmetric subcomponent in the form of atomic dark matter (aDM). This arises in many scenarios of dark complexity, and is a prediction of neutral naturalness, such as the Mirror Twin Higgs model. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-25 David Curtin , Jack Setford

Recently there is a renewed interest in exploring the Dark sector of the universe in a more constrained way. Particularly in [1], the FIMP ( Feebly Interacting Massive Particle) scenario was shown to be realized with a minimal extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Utkarsh Patel , Lekhika Malhotra , Sudhanwa Patra , Urjit A. Yajnik

Almost commutative geometry offers a specific way to unify general relativity, quantum mechanics and gauge symmetries. The AC-model of elementary particles, arising on this way, naturally embeds the Standard model and predicts doubly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Christoph A. Stephan

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe might consist of new stable charged species, bound by ordinary Coulomb interactions in various forms of heavy neutral "dark atoms". The existing models offer natural implementations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-10 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Khlopov , Maxim Laletin

We investigate a novel type of asymmetric dark matter (ADM) model in which the dark matter asymmetry and the baryon asymmetry in our universe (BAU) are produced simultaneously via low-scale spontaneous leptogenesis, where the mass scale of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Hiroki Takahashi , Juntaro Wada

To properly solve the coincidence problem ($\Omega_\mathrm{DM} \simeq 5\Omega_\mathrm{VM}$) in a model of asymmetric dark matter, one cannot simply relate the number densities of visible and dark matter without also relating their particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-10 Alexander C. Ritter , Raymond R. Volkas

We propose a ultraviolet complete theory for cold dark matter(CDM) and sterile neutrino that can accommodate both cosmological data and neutrino oscillation experiments at $1\sigma$ level. A new $U(1)_X$ dark gauge symmetry is introduced,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 P. Ko , Yong Tang

The relic abundance of particle and antiparticle dark matter (DM) need not be vastly different in thermal asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models. By considering the effect of a primordial asymmetry on the thermal Boltzmann evolution of coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-14 Nicole F. Bell , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Ian M. Shoemaker

We study the decay signatures of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) via higher dimension operators which are responsible for generating the primordial dark matter (DM) asymmetry. Since the signatures are sensitive both to the nature of the higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yue Zhao , Kathryn M. Zurek

It has been pointed out in ref.[1] that in the nuMSM (Standard Model extended by three right-handed neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale), there is a corner in the parameter space where CP-violating resonant oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Laine , M. Shaposhnikov

We investigate a novel scenario involving asymmetric keV-range dark matter (DM) in the form of right-handed (sterile) neutrinos. Based on the Fermi-Dirac distribution, we demonstrate that asymmetric fermionic DM forms a Fermi degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-17 Wen Yin , Shota Nakagawa , Tamaki Murokoshi , Makoto Hattori

We explore a new mechanism for reproducing the Dark Matter (DM) abundance: scatterings of one DM particle on light Standard Model particles. Strong bounds on its decays can be satisfied if DM undergoes freeze-in and has a mass around or…

We propose a model of asymmetric dark matter (DM) where the dark sector is an identical copy of both forces and matter of the standard model (SM) as in the mirror universe models discussed in literature. In addition to being connected by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-08 Haipeng An , Shao-Long Chen , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Yue Zhang

A simple model for magnetic inelastic dark matter (MiDM), which is a minimal extension of the standard model with right-handed neutrinos ($N_R$), a singly charged scalar ($S$) and a vector-like charged fermion ($E$), has been presented. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 Sudhanwa Patra , Soumya Rao

We present a simplified version of the atomic dark matter scenario, in which charged dark constituents are bound into atoms analogous to hydrogen by a massless hidden sector U(1) gauge interaction. Previous studies have assumed that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 James M. Cline , Zuowei Liu , Wei Xue

A right-handed neutrino is a promising candidate for dark matter (DM) which has no interaction with nuclei. Since two right-handed neutrinos explain neutrino oscillation data and baryon number asymmetry through both the seesaw mechanism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Daijiro Suematsu

Inspired by the decaying dark matter (DM) which can explain cosmic ray anomalies naturally, we consider the supersymmetric Standard Model with three right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) and R-parity, and introduce a TeV-scale DM sector with two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 Zhaofeng Kang , Tianjun Li