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The Higgs portal to scalar Dark Matter is considered in the context of non-linearly realised electroweak symmetry breaking. We determine the dominant interactions of gauge bosons and the physical Higgs particle $h$ to a scalar singlet dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 I. Brivio , M. B. Gavela , L. Merlo , K. Mimasu , J. M. No , R. del Rey , V. Sanz

We analyse the excess in the $\gamma$-ray emission from the center of our galaxy observed by Fermi-LAT in terms of dark matter annihilation within the scalar Higgs portal model. In particular, we include the astrophysical uncertainties from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Alessandro Cuoco , Benedikt Eiteneuer , Jan Heisig , Michael Krämer

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

Dark Matter (DM) may be a thermal relic that annihilates into heavier states in the early Universe. This Forbidden DM framework accommodates a wide range of DM masses from keV to weak scales. An exponential hierarchy between the DM mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-13 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Joshua T. Ruderman

We study the non-minimal composite Higgs model with global symmetry $\text{SO}(7)$ broken to $\text{SO}(5)\times \text{SO}(2)$. The model results in a composite Two-Higgs doublet model (2HDM) equipped with two extra singlets, the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Alessandro Davoli , Andrea De Simone , David Marzocca , Alessandro Morandini

This study explores a minimal renormalizable dark matter (DM) model, incorporating a sub-GeV Majorana DM and a singlet scalar particle $\phi$. Using scalar and pseudo-scalar interactions (couplings $c_s$ and $c_p$), we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Yu-Tong Chen , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu

We study the non-thermal production of the Higgsino dark matter (DM). Assuming that the lightest neutral Higgsino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) in minimal supersymmetric standard model, we calculate the relic abundance of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Hajime Fukuda , Qiang Li , Takeo Moroi , Atsuya Niki

The idea of this work is to investigate the constraints on the dark matter (DM) allowed parameter space from high scale validity (absolute stability of Higgs vacuum and perturbativity) in presence of multi particle dark sector and heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Purusottam Ghosh , Abhijit Kumar Saha , Arunansu Sil

We study light, thermal neutralino dark matter in the sub-GeV to 65 GeV mass range in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). We consider realizations of the limit of alignment without decoupling in the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-20 Stefano Profumo , Tim Stefaniak

We discuss the constraints on the Dark Matter coming from the LHC Higgs data and WMAP relic density measurements for the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), which is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model providing a Dark Matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-16 Maria Krawczyk , Dorota Sokolowska , Pawel Swaczyna , Bogumila Swiezewska

Due to the strong constrain from the LUX experiment, the scalar portal dark matter can not generally explain a gamma-ray excess in the galactic center by the annihilation of dark matter into $b\bar{b}$. With the motivation of eliminating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Lei Wang , Xiao-Fang Han

We consider the special case that the dark matter (DM) candidate is not detected in direct-detection programs when the experimental sensitivity reaches the neutrino flux background. In such circumstance the DM searches at the colliders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-18 Qing-Hong Cao , Ti Gong , Ke-Pan Xie , Zhen Zhang

A reliable comparison of different dark matter (DM) searches requires models that satisfy certain consistency requirements like gauge invariance and perturbative unitarity. As a well-motivated example, we study two-mediator DM (2MDM). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-27 Michael Duerr , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Thomas Schwetz , Stefan Vogl

We present a comprehensive study of secluded dark matter (DM) $\chi$, where the relic abundance is set by annihilations into lighter dark mediators $\phi$ that couple only feebly to the Standard Model (SM). In contrast to canonical WIMPs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Mattia Di Mauro , Yanhan Wang

We identify and analyze thermal dark matter candidates in the fraternal twin Higgs model and its generalizations. The relic abundance of fraternal twin dark matter is set by twin weak interactions, with a scale tightly tied to the weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-02 Nathaniel Craig , Andrey Katz

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

A 125 GeV Higgs-like particle discovered at the LHC in 2012 has properties expected for it in the Standard Model (SM), with a possible enhancement in the two-photon channel. Such SM-like Higgs scenario can be realized within the Inert…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-01 Maria Krawczyk , Dorota Sokolowska , Bogumila Swiezewska

We explore the possibility that the dark matter relic density is not produced by thermal mechanism directly, but by the decay of other heavier dark sector particles which on the other hand can be produced by the thermal freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Yu Cheng , Wei Liao , Qi-Shu Yan

We propose a scenario of the right-handed neutrino dark matter in the context of the minimal gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ model by introducing an additional parity which ensures the stability of dark matter particle. The annihilation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

The simplest Higgs-portal dark matter model is studied in the light of dark matter self-interacting effects on the formation of large scale structures. We show the direct detection limits on the resonant and large mass regions. Finally, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-24 Huayong Han , Sibo Zheng