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We investigate the capability of directional detectors to probe neutralino dark matter in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with parameters defined at the weak scale. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-12 D. Albornoz Vásquez , G. Bélanger , J. Billard , F. Mayet

We study collider constraints on the near-continuum dark matter model, in which the dark sector consists of a tower of closely spaced states with weak-scale masses coupled to the Standard Model through a $Z$-portal. To capture this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Steven Ferrante , Lillian Luo , Maxim Perelstein , Taewook Youn

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

We study a renormalizable model of Dirac fermion dark matter (DM) that communicates with the Standard Model (SM) through a pair of mediators -- one scalar, one fermion -- in the representation $(\boldsymbol{6},\boldsymbol{1}, \tfrac{4}{3})$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-27 Linda M. Carpenter , Taylor Murphy , Tim M. P. Tait

We consider a minimal Dark Matter model with just two additional states, a Dark Matter Majorana fermion and a colored or electroweakly charged scalar, without introducing any symmetry to stabilize the DM state. We identify the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Giorgio Arcadi , Laura Covi

Dark matter particles, even if they are electrically neutral, could interact with the Standard Model particles via their electromagnetic multipole moments. In this paper, we focus on the electromagnetic properties of the complex vector dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Junji Hisano , Alejandro Ibarra , Ryo Nagai

The dark matter (DM) blind spots in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) refer to the parameter regions where the couplings of the DM particles to the $Z$-boson or the Higgs boson are almost zero, leading to vanishingly small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-13 Tao Han , Felix Kling , Shufang Su , Yongcheng Wu

We combine and extend the analyses of effective scalar, vector, Majorana and Dirac fermion Higgs portal models of dark matter (DM), in which DM couples to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson via an operator of the form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 Ankit Beniwal , Filip Rajec , Christopher Savage , Pat Scott , Christoph Weniger , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

We present an initial design study for LDMX, the Light Dark Matter Experiment, a small-scale accelerator experiment having broad sensitivity to both direct dark matter and mediator particle production in the sub-GeV mass region. LDMX…

We calculate direct detection constraints on inelastic dark matter (DM) for a scalar portal scenario with leptophilic couplings. The p-wave velocity suppression of the annihilation cross section of scalar-mediated inelastic Dirac DM implies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 I. V. Voronchikhin , D. V. Kirpichnikov

Many models containing particles which are candidates for dark matter, assume the standard model particles and the dark matter candidates are mediated by a spin-0 particle. At the LHC, one can use these models for dark matter searches. One…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-20 Yoav Afik , Eitan Gozani , Yoram Rozen

Confining gauge dynamics in dark sector is promising to provide dark matter with a mass in the range of sub-GeV to GeV. These dark sectors consist of composite particles, such as dark baryons and dark mesons, that are neutral under the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Takumi Kuwahara , Shu-Run Yuan

As any e$^+$e$^-$ scattering process can be accompanied by a hard photon emission from the initial state radiation, the analysis of the energy spectrum and angular distributions of those photons can be used to search for hard processes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Jan Kalinowski , Wojciech Kotlarski , Krzysztof Mekala , Pawel Sopicki , Aleksander Filip Zarnecki

We discuss the most sensitive constraints on Light Dark Matter (LDM) from accelerator experiments NA64 and BaBar and compare it with recent results from direct searches at XENON1T, DAMIC-M, SuperCDMS, and DarkSide-50. We show that for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 S. N. Gninenko , D. V. Kirpichnikov , N. V. Krasnikov

We systematically study light (< few GeV) Dark Matter (DM) models that thermalize with visible matter through the Higgs portal and identify the remaining gaps in the viable parameter space. Such models require a comparably light scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Gordan Krnjaic

Composite asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models provide a well-motivated paradigm that simultaneously explains dark matter (DM) relic density and matter-antimatter asymmetry. In these models, the mass of the DM candidate (the lightest dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Chih-Ting Lu , Changbin Xi

We consider the scattering of low-mass halo dark-matter particles in the hot plasma of the Sun, focusing on dark matter that interact with ordinary matter through a dark-photon mediator. The resulting ``solar-reflected'' dark matter (SRDM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Timon Emken , Rouven Essig , Hailin Xu

We study mono-W signals of dark matter (DM) production at the LHC, in the context of gauge invariant renormalizable models. We analyze two simplified models, one involving an s-channel Z' mediator and the other a t-channel colored scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 Nicole F. Bell , Yi Cai , Rebecca K. Leane

We promote the idea of multi-component Dark Matter (DM) to explain results from both direct and indirect detection experiments. In these models as contribution of each DM candidate to relic abundance is summed up to meet WMAP/Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar , Subhendu Rakshit

We study the collider phenomenology of dark matter pair production at the LHC in simplified dark matter models and in the MSSM. Among the large space of dark matter models, we focus on two particular models where a fermionic dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Christoph Borschensky , Gabriele Coniglio , Barbara Jäger