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The Higgs sector of the Standard Model offers a unique probe of the hidden sector. In this work, we explore the possibility of renormalizable Higgs couplings to the hidden sector vector fields which can constitute dark matter (DM). Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Oleg Lebedev , Hyun Min Lee , Yann Mambrini

We study the simplest extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that originate Dark Matter (DM) candidates, built with the addition of real singlets and new ${Z}_2$ symmetries under which the models are invariant. In this type of models the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Maria Gonçalves , Margarete Mühlleitner , Rui Santos , Tomás Trindade

Warm dark matter (WDM) may resolve the possible conflict between observed galaxy halos and the halos produced in cold dark matter (CDM) simulations. Here we present an extension of MSSM to include WDM by adding a gauge singlet fermion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 John McDonald , Narendra Sahu

A new $U(1)$ dark gauge group coupled to the Standard Model (SM) via the kinetic mixing portal provides a natural dark matter candidate in the form of the Higgs field, $h_d$, responsible for generating the mass of the dark photon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Cristina Mondino , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman , Oren Slone

This work considers an extension of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector by a real, scalar singlet field, including applicability to a dark matter (DM) model with the addition of a Yukawa coupling to a Dirac fermion. The collider signatures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-12 Grace Dupuis

We study a minimal model with an imposed $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry incorporating two singlet fermions and a singlet scalar which communicate with the SM particles through a scalar-Higgs portal. We probe regions in the parameter space where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Karim Ghorbani

In the minimal supersymmetric standard models, neutralino dark matter with mass of $m_{\chi}\sim m_Z/2\sim 45$ GeV and $m_{\chi}\sim m_h/2\sim 62$ GeV can have the thermal relic abundance $\Omega_{\chi_1}h^2\simeq 0.120$ via the $Z$- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Koichi Hamaguchi , Kazuya Ishikawa

We investigate the constraints and phenomenology of a three Higgs doublet model (3HDM) with a $\Z2\times\Z2$ symmetry, featuring two inert scalar doublets that give rise to a two-component dark matter (DM) scenario. We analyze the model's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Jorge C. Romão , Rafael Boto , Pedro N. Figueiredo , João P. Silva

We extend the Standard Model (SM) by introducing a $U(1)'$ gauge boson and a real pseudo-scalar field, both odd under a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. The resulting low-energy spectrum consists of a stable vector as the dark matter candidate, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Paola Arias , Bastián Díaz Sáez , Lucía Duarte , Joel Jones-Pérez , Walter Rodriguez , Danilo Zegarra Herrera

We analyze a low energy effective model of Dark Matter in which the thermal relic density is provided by a singlet Majorana fermion which interacts with the Higgs fields via higher dimensional operators. Direct detection signatures may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Sebastian Baum , Marcela Carena , Nausheen R. Shah , Carlos E. M. Wagner

At the tail of its velocity distribution, cold dark matter (DM) can annihilate at finite temperature to states heavier than itself. We explore the possibility that DM freezeout is dictated by these "forbidden annihilations" at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Antonio Delgado , Adam Martin , Nirmal Raj

GeV-scale thermal dark matter (DM) is highly constrained by the null results of both direct and indirect detection experiments, especially in the context of simplified models. In this work, we study the interplay of collider, direct and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 D. Alonso-González , D. Cerdeño , P. Foldenauer , J. M. No

We examine the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model with a light scalar dark matter ($S$) after imposing the constraints from the Higgs searches at the LHC and dark matter experiments. We first assume that both two CP-even Higgses ($h$ and $H$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Xiao-Fang Han , Lei Wang

In the left-right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, the neutral $\hat{S}$ is a candidate for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). If its mass is lighter than half of the SM-like Higgs boson $h$, the new invisible decay $h \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-23 Yao-Bei Liu , Zhen-Jun Xiao

We propose and study a purely inelastic scalar dark matter model, where two real scalars-dark matter $\phi_1$ and its excited partner $\phi_2$ interact with the Standard Model via a Higgs portal. After mass diagonalization, only inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Jinhui Guo , Jia Liu , Chenhao Peng , Xiao-Ping Wang

We revisit the simplest model for dark matter. In this context the dark matter candidate is a real scalar field which interacts with the Standard Model particles through the Higgs portal. We discuss the relic density constraints as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

It is well known that for the pure standard model triplet fermionic WIMP-type dark matter (DM), the relic density is satisfied around 2 TeV. For such a heavy mass particle, the production cross-section at 13 TeV run of LHC will be very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-24 Sandhya Choubey , Sarif Khan , Manimala Mitra , Subhadeep Mondal

We provide a short review of some aspects of Dark Matter production in non Standard Cosmology. Considering the simplest Higgs portal model as definite particle physics setup, we consider the impact on the parameter space corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-18 Giorgio Arcadi

The increasingly stringent bounds on the Higgs-portal coupling, arising from dark matter (DM) direct-detection searches, confront the minimal renormalizable complex scalar DM scenario with thermal production, where freeze-out occurs in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Manimala Mitra , Dipankar Pradhan , Subham Saha

We consider the long-range effect of the Higgs on the density of thermal-relic dark matter. While the electroweak gauge boson and gluon exchange have been previously studied, the Higgs is typically thought to mediate only contact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-18 Julia Harz , Kalliopi Petraki