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A class of chiral gauge theories is studied with accidentally-stable pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons playing the role of dark matter (DM). The gauge group contains a vector-like dark color factor that confines at energies larger than the…

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We analyze future direct data matter detection experiments using Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators with light, $\lesssim 100$ MeV mass mediators. We compare the nuclear recoil energy spectra from these operators to the predicted high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-29 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari

The B-L extension of the Standard Model requires the existence of right-handed neutrinos and naturally realizes the seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass generation. We study the possibility of explaining the dark matter in this model with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Werner Rodejohann , Carlos E. Yaguna

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 revisit the effective field theory of the standard model that is extended with sterile neutrinos, $N$. We examine the basis of complete and independent effective operators involving $N$ up to mass dimension seven (dim-7). By employing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-19 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

Direct detection of and LHC search for the singlet fermion dark matter (SFDM) model with Higgs portal interaction are considered in a renormalizable model where the full Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry is imposed by introducing a singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 Seungwon Baek , P. Ko , Myeonghun Park , Wan-Il Park , Chaehyun Yu

We propose a class of dark matter models based on a chiral $U(1)$ gauge symmetry acting on a dark sector. The chiral $U(1)$ protects the masses of the dark sector fermions, and also guarantees the stability of the dark matter particle by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 K. S. Babu , Shreyashi Chakdar , Vishnu P. K

Distinguishing a dark matter interaction from an astrophysical neutrino-induced interaction will be major challenge for future direct dark matter searches. In this paper, we consider this issue within non-relativistic Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari

In this work we study the constraints on the dark matter interaction with the standard model particles, from the observations of dark matter relic density, the direct detection experiments of CDMS and XENON, and the indirect detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-07 Jia-Ming Zheng , Zhao-Huan Yu , Jun-Wen Shao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Zhibing Li , Hong-Hao Zhang

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) form a promising solution to the dark matter problem and many experiments are now searching for these particles. Using effective field theories to describe the interaction of the WIMP with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-22 Daniel Schmeier

We investigate scenarios in which dark matter interacts with the Standard Model primarily through electroweak gauge bosons. We employ an effective field theory framework wherein the Standard Model and the dark matter particle are the only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 R. C. Cotta , J. L. Hewett , M. P. Le , T. G. Rizzo

We develop a general framework for the computation of light portal dark matter direct detection, incorporating a consistent treatment of finite momentum transfer. In this framework, dark matter interacts with Standard Model matter through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Qing Chen , Shuang-Yong Zhou

Theories beyond the Standard Model must necessarily respect its gauge symmetry. This implies strict constraints on the possible models of non-standard neutrino interactions, which we analyze. The focus is set on the effective low-energy…

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In this paper, we introduce a new interacting mechanism within the dark sector, encompassing both dark energy and dark matter, while grounding our analysis in the familiar framework of the $\mathrm{\Lambda CDM}$ model augmented by baryons…

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We present a model describing the dark sector (DS) featured by two interactions remaining efficient until late times in the matter-dominated era after recombination: the interaction among dark radiations (DR), and the interaction between a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-26 Gongjun Choi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida , Norimi Yokozaki

Despite the astonishing success of standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, there is mounting evidence for a tension with observations at small and intermediate scales. We introduce a simple model where both cold dark matter (DM) and sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-01 Torsten Bringmann , Jasper Hasenkamp , Joern Kersten

We present 48 types of solutions to the anomaly cancellation conditions of local Abelian extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with right-handed singlet chiral fermions. At least two of them acquire effective light Dirac neutrino masses,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-20 Diego Restrepo , David Suarez

In this paper, we systematically investigate the general dark matter-electron interactions within the framework of effective field theories (EFT). We consider both the non-relativistic (NR) EFT and the relativistic EFT descriptions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Jin-Han Liang , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We discuss a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) that provides an explicit realization of the dark-matter (DM) neutrino-portal paradigm. The dark sector is composed of a scalar $ \Phi $ and a Dirac fermion $ \Psi $, with the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Vannia González-Macías , José I. Illana , José Wudka