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The identity of dark matter is being sought with increasingly sensitive and voluminous underground detectors. Recently the XENON1T collaboration reported excess electronic recoil events, with most of these having recoil energies around…
We present a model of dark matter in a warped extra dimension in which the dark sector mass scales are naturally generated without supersymmetry. The dark force, responsible for dark matter annihilating predominantly into leptons, is…
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We present a framework for dark matter (DM) halo formation based on a kinetic theory of self-gravitating fermions together with a solid connection to thermodynamics. Based on maximum entropy arguments, this approach predicts a most likely…
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We discuss the production of dark matter with mass of order $10$-$100$ TeV and $\mathcal{O}(1)$ couplings to the standard model, a scenario we refer to as the `mesotuned WIMP'. Given the lack of new physics observed at the LHC, indicating…
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