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We explore a novel class of multi-particle dark sectors, called Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter (iBDM). These models are constructed by combining properties of particles that scatter off matter by making transitions to heavier states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Gian F. Giudice , Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

The detection of Dark Matter (DM) remains a significant challenge in particle physics. This study exploits advanced machine learning models to improve detection capabilities of liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments, utilizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Andres D. Perez , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We propose a new strategy to directly detect light particle dark matter that has long-ranged interactions with ordinary matter. The approach involves distorting the local flow of dark matter with time-varying fields and measuring these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Asher Berlin , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

In this thesis, we present a comprehensive and pedagogical overview of dark matter (DM). Chapter 1 discusses the main evidences for its existence, its properties, and potential candidates. We then explore major detection strategies, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Jordan Koechler

For dark matter (DM) direct detections, the kinematic effects such as those of the inelastic scattering can play important role in light DM searches. The light DM detection is generally difficult because of its small recoil energy. But the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-02 Hong-Jian He , Yu-Chen Wang , Jiaming Zheng

The indirect detection of dark matter (DM) through its annihilation products is one of the primary strategies for DM detection. One of the least constrained classes of models is neutrinophilic DM, because the annihilation products, weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Anna M. Suliga , George M. Fuller

We consider models where a massive spin-two resonance acts as the mediator between Dark Matter (DM) and the SM particles through the energy-momentum tensor. We examine the effective theory for fermion, vector and scalar DM generated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 A. Carrillo-Monteverde , Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Veronica Sanz

We show that the momentum dependence of dark matter interactions with nuclei can be probed in direct detection experiments without knowledge of the dark matter velocity distribution. This is one of the few properties of DM microphysics that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-14 John F. Cherry , Mads T. Frandsen , Ian M. Shoemaker

We explore the detection prospects for a minimal secluded dark matter model, where a fermionic dark matter particle interacts with the Standard Model (SM) via a kinetically mixed dark photon. We focus on scenarios where the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-29 Ahmed Alenezi , Cari Cesarotti , Stefania Gori , Jessie Shelton

Dipolar Dark Matter (DDM) is an alternative model motivated by the challenges faced by the standard cold dark matter model to describe the right phenomenology at galactic scales. A promising realisation of DDM was recently proposed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Luc Blanchet , Lavinia Heisenberg

In this paper, we introduce a novel program of fixed-target searches for thermal-origin Dark Matter (DM), which couples inelastically to the Standard Model. Since the DM only interacts by transitioning to a heavier state, freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-05 Eder Izaguirre , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Matthew Moschella

Self-Destructing Dark Matter (SDDM) is a class of dark sector models in which the collision of a dark sector particle with the earth induces its prompt decay into Standard Model particles, generating unique signals at neutrino detectors.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Michael Geller , Ofri Telem

We investigate the global dynamics of the universe within the framework of the Interacting Dark Matter (IDM) scenario. Considering that the dark matter obeys the collisional Boltzmann equation, we can obtain analytical solutions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Spyros Basilakos , Manolis Plionis

Based on observational constraints on large scale structure and halo structure, dark matter is generally taken to be cold and essentially collisionless. On the other hand, given the large number of particles and forces in the visible world,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 JiJi Fan , Andrey Katz , Lisa Randall , Matthew Reece

We consider the proposal that dark matter (DM) is composed of a spin-3/2 particle that is a singlet of the standard model (SM). Its leading effective interactions with ordinary matter involve a pair of their fields and a pair of SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-31 Ran Ding , Yi Liao , Ji-Yuan Liu , Kai Wang

Exotic dark matter together with dark energy or cosmological constant seem to dominate in the Universe. An even higher density of such matter seems to be gravitationally trapped in our Galaxy. The nature of dark matter can be unveiled only,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 J. D. Vergados

A generic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) is one of the most attractive candidates to account for the cold dark matter in our Universe, since it would be thermally produced with the correct abundance to account for the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 David G. Cerdeno , Anne M. Green

The asymmetric dark matter (ADM) paradigm is motivated by the apparent coincidence between the cosmological mass densities of visible and dark matter, $\Omega_\mathrm{DM} \simeq 5\Omega_\mathrm{VM}$. However, most ADM models only relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 Alexander C. Ritter , Raymond R. Volkas

Dark matter (DM)-electron scattering is a prime target of a number of direct DM detection experiments and constitutes a promising avenue for exploring interactions of DM in the sub-GeV mass-range, challenging to probe with nuclear recoils.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Muping Chen , Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov

Direct detection experiments have started to explore dark matter scattering off electrons and nucleons through light mediators. Mediators with sub-keV masses are efficiently produced in the Sun and can be absorbed in the same detectors that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Pieter Braat , Anh Vu Phan , Marieke Postma , Susanne Westhoff