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A simple explanation of the W+dijet excess recently reported by the CDF collaboration involves the introduction of a new gauge boson with sizable couplings to quarks, but with no or highly suppressed couplings to leptons. Anomaly-free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-09 Matt Buckley , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Dan Hooper , Ethan Neil

Inspired by the recently new measurement of $(g-2)_{\mu}$ at FermiLab and reported upper bound for electron-dark matter (DM) recoil by the XENON1T collaboration, we revisited phenomenology of a light MeV scale vector dark matter in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We study a minimal framework where a Majorana fermion dark matter particle interacts with a light scalar mediator coupled mainly to electrons. We examine both freeze-out and freeze-in production to determine the regions of parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Marco Graziani , Giacomo Landini , Federico Mescia , Claudio Toni , Ludovico Vittorio

We perform a detailed study of the dark Z' portal using a generic parametrization of the Z'-quarks couplings, both for light (8-15)GeV and heavy (130-1000)GeV dark matter scenarios. We present a comprehensive study of the collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-20 Alexandre Alves , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

The Lepton Portal Dark Matter model, in which dark matter states only coupling to the charged leptons, can explain the excess of the muon anomalous magnetic moment measured by the Muon $g - 2$ experiment. In this paper, we demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

We present a comprehensive study of the Muonic Portal to Vector Dark Matter (MPVDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model featuring a new $SU(2)_D$ gauge symmetry and vector-like muons that mediate interactions between the dark sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Alexander Belyaev , Luca Panizzi , Nakorn Thongyoi , Franz Wilhelm

We consider current precision electroweak data, Z' searches and dark matter constraints and analyse their implications for an extension of the SM that includes an extra U(1)' massive gauge boson and a particular hidden sector ("hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Cassel , D. M. Ghilencea , G. G. Ross

We study a class of simplified dark matter models in which dark matter couples directly with a mediator and a charged lepton. This class of Lepton Portal dark matter models has very rich phenomenology: it has loop generated dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

We study a class of dark matter models in which the dark matter is a baryon-like composite particle of a confining gauge group and also a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the breaking of an enhanced chiral symmetry group. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-08 Matthew R. Buckley , Ethan T. Neil

We study a lepton portal dark matter model, motivated by the deviation of the $W$ boson mass reported by the CDF collaboration. We introduce vector-like leptons and a scalar dark matter (DM) which exclusively couples to the extra leptons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Junichiro Kawamura , Shohei Okawa , Yuji Omura

In this paper we propose to use the measurement of the thermal Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) dilepton spectra in the Intermediate Mass Region (IMR) of heavy-ion collisions, as a new method to search for GeV-scale dark gauge bosons (gamma' or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-18 Jonathan H. Davis , Celine Boehm

Dark matter (DM) could couple to particles in the Standard Model (SM) through a light vector mediator. In the limit of small coupling, this portal could be responsible for producing the observed DM abundance through a mechanism known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

We study a class of simplified dark matter models in which one dark matter particle couples with a mediator and a Standard Model fermion. In such models, collider and direct detection searches probe complimentary regions of parameter space.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

We consider a U(1)$_X$ gauge symmetry extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a $Z^\prime$-portal Majorana fermion dark matter that allows for a relatively light gauge boson $Z^\prime$ with mass of 10 MeV$-$ a few GeV and a much heavier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Nobuchika Okada , Satomi Okada , Qaisar Shafi

We explore the interplay between lines in the gamma-ray spectrum and LHC searches involving missing energy and photons. As an example, we consider a singlet Dirac fermion dark matter with the mediator for Fermi gamma-ray line at 130 GeV. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Veronica Sanz

We present a fermionic dark matter model mediated by the hidden gauge boson. We assume the QED-like hidden sector which consists of a Dirac fermion and U(1)$_X$ gauge symmetry, and introduce an additional scalar electroweak doublet field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-16 Dong-Won Jung , Soo-hyeon Nam , Chaehyun Yu , Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee

In this work, we provide a comprehensive study of fermion-portal dark matter models in the freeze-in regime at a future muon collider. For different possible non-singlet fermion portals, we calculate the upper bound on the mediator's mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Pouya Asadi , Samuel Homiller , Aria Radick , Tien-Tien Yu

We investigate a neutral gauge boson X originated from a hidden U(1) extension of the standard model as the particle dark matter candidate. The vector dark matter interacts with the standard model fermions through heavy fermion mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Jiang-Hao Yu

We present a model featuring sub-GeV vector dark matter by augmenting the Standard Model with a new non-Abelian dark $SU(2)_D$, spontaneously broken by the vacuum expectation values of a scalar doublet and a triplet. Interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Avik Banerjee , Riccardo Catena , Taylor R. Gray

We study minimal benchmark models of dark matter with an extra anomaly-free U(1)' gauge boson Z'. We find model parameters that give rise to the correct cosmological dark matter density while evading the latest direct detection searches for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-09 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Patrick Tunney