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We study the interactions of a new spin-1 mediator that connects the Standard Model to dark matter. We constrain its decay channels using monojet and monophoton searches, as well as searches for resonances in dijet, dilepton and diboson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-27 Mads T. Frandsen , Felix Kahlhoefer , Anthony Preston , Subir Sarkar , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

We propose a simplified model of dark matter with a scalar mediator to accommodate the di-photon excess recently observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Decays of the resonance into dark matter can easily account for a relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Mihailo Backovic , Alberto Mariotti , Diego Redigolo

We explore the potential of future cryogenic direct detection experiments to determine the properties of the mediator that communicates the interactions between dark matter and nuclei. Due to their low thresholds and large exposures,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Felix Kahlhoefer , Suchita Kulkarni , Sebastian Wild

The idea that dark-matter interactions with Standard-Model particles may be mediated by new bosons with masses in the MeV-to-GeV range took off several years ago. Constraints on such models were soon calculated based on older measurements.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-25 Abner Soffer

We revisit the possibility of light scalar dark matter, in the MeV to GeV mass bracket and coupled to electrons through fermion or vector mediators, in light of significant experimental and observational advances that probe new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Céline Bœhm , Xiaoyong Chu , Jui-Lin Kuo , Josef Pradler

Utilizing an exhaustive set of simplified models, we revisit dark matter scenarios potentially capable of generating the observed Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, updating constraints from the LUX and PandaX-II experiments, as well as from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-21 Miguel Escudero , Dan Hooper , Samuel J. Witte

In a variety of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, the scalar partners of the quarks and leptons are predicted to be very heavy and beyond the reach of next-generation colliders. For instance, the realization of electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Carena , A. Freitas

One of the simplest models of dark matter is that where a scalar singlet field S comprises some or all of the dark matter, and interacts with the standard model through an HHSS coupling to the Higgs boson. We update the present limits on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-07 James M. Cline , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pat Scott , Christoph Weniger

In the presence of approximate global symmetries that forbid relevant interactions, strongly coupled light Dark Matter (DM) can appear weakly coupled at small energy and generate a sizable relic abundance. Fundamental principles like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-27 Sebastian Bruggisser , Francesco Riva , Alfredo Urbano

We present the results and prospects for searches beyond the Standard Model (SM) at the LHC by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. The minimal supersymmetric extension of the SM has been investigated in various configurations and lower limits…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel Teyssier

We explore the prospect of constraining light mediators at the next generation direct detection dark matter detectors through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-07 Anirban Majumdar , D. K. Papoulias , Rahul Srivastava

In the general Higgs portal like models, the extra neutral scalar, $S$, can mix with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson, $H$. We perform an exploratory study focusing on the direct search for such a light singlet $S$ at the Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-21 We-Fu Chang , Tanmoy Modak , John N. Ng

We investigate constraints on the interactions of light dark matter with Standard Model quarks in a framework with effective contact operators mediating the decay of heavy flavor bound state quarkonium to dark matter and a photon. When…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-05 Nicolas Fernandez , Ilsoo Seong , Patrick Stengel

As an interpretation of the 750 GeV diphoton excesses recently reported by both ATLAS and CMS collaborations, we consider a simple extension of the Standard Model with a Dirac fermion dark matter where a singlet complex scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-03 Soo-Min Choi , Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee

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 discuss cosmological constraints on a dark scalar particle mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson. We pay particular attention to the dark scalar production process when the reheating temperature of the Universe is very low, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

We study the complementarity between dark matter experiments (direct detection and indirect detections) and accelerator facilities (the CERN LHC and a $\sqrt{s}= 1$ TeV $e^+e^-$ Linear Collider) in the framework of the constrained Minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Mambrini , E. Nezri

We update the constraints on the minimal model of dark matter, where a stable real scalar field is added to the standard model Lagrangian with a renormalizable coupling to the Higgs field. Once we fix the dark matter abundance, there are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 Masaki Asano , Ryuichiro Kitano

The search for supersymmetric partners at Large Hadron Collider revealed negative result. Though, strictly speaking, it does not exclude low energy supersymmetry, but still it leads to strong constraints of the parameter space. Therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-26 E. V. Arbuzova

Observations of white dwarfs in dark matter-rich environments can provide strong limits on the strength of dark matter interactions. Here we apply the recently improved formalism of the dark matter capture rate in white dwarfs to a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada