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We investigate a possible realization of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNG) dark matter in the framework of a singlet-extended 2 Higgs doublet model (S2HDM). pNG dark matter gained attraction due to the fact that direct-detection constraints can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-29 Thomas Biekötter , María Olalla Olea

We introduce a new paradigm in Composite Dark Sectors, where the full Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) is extended with a strongly-interacting composite sector with global symmetry group $\mathcal{G}$ spontaneously broken to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Adrian Carmona , Mikael Chala

We study the dark matter phenomenology of non-minimal composite Higgs models with $SO(7)$ broken to the exceptional group $G_2$. In addition to the Higgs, three pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons arise, one of which is electrically neutral. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-19 Guillermo Ballesteros , Adrian Carmona , Mikael Chala

In this work, we extend the scalar sector of the conventional hyperchargeless inert triplet model (ITM) to include a second dark matter (DM) candidate, which appears to be a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB). The usual ITM with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Pankaj Borah , Pradipta Ghosh

Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNG) dark matter (DM) is a promising DM candidate and able to explain the measured DM abundance by the thermal freeze-out mechanism evading the stringent bound from DM direct detection experiments. We propose a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Tomohiro Abe , Yu Hamada , Koji Tsumura

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

We consider a simple Higgs portal dark matter (DM) model, where the Standard Model is extended with a complex singlet scalar. The imaginary part of the scalar becomes a massive and stable pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, serving as the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Nicolás Bernal , Giovanna Cottin , Bastián Díaz Sáez , Manuel López

Pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pNGBs) are naturally light spin-zero particles, which can be interesting dark matter (DM) candidates. We study the phenomenology of a pNGB theta associated with an approximate symmetry of the neutrino seesaw…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Michele Frigerio , Thomas Hambye , Eduard Masso

The $Z_3$-invariant next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) can provide a candidate for dark matter (DM). It can also be used to explain the hypothesis that the Higgs signal observed on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) comes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-16 Zhaoxia Heng , Shenshen Yang , Xingjuan Li , Liangliang Shang

The relationship between the degree of fine-tuning in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) and the discoverability of dark matter in current and next generation direct detection experiments is investigated in the context of two unified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Pearl Sandick

We establish the possibility of having a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) Dark Matter (DM) candidate in the inspired Froggatt-Nielsen Singlet Model (iFNSM) wherein a direct connection exists between the DM mass and new flavon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Amit Chakraborty , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Najimuddin Khan , Stefano Moretti

We explore simplified models of mixed dark matter (DM), defined here to be a stable relic composed of a singlet and an electroweak charged state. Our setup describes a broad spectrum of thermal DM candidates that can naturally accommodate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 Clifford Cheung , David Sanford

We consider a realisation of composite Higgs models in the context of $SU(6)/ SO(6)$ symmetry, which features a custodial bi-triplet, two Higgs doublets and dark matter candidates. This model can arise from an underlying gauge-fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-22 Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Haiying Cai , Aldo Deandrea , Ashwani Kushwaha

In a class of theories where the Higgs field emerges as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, it is often assumed that interactions to generate the top Yukawa coupling provide the Higgs potential as well. Such a scenario generically requires a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Masaki Asano , Ryuichiro Kitano

Gauging the global $B-L$ (Baryon number minus Lepton number) symmetry in the Standard Model (SM) is well-motivated since anomaly cancellations require the introduction of three right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) which play an essential role in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Nobuchika Okada , Digesh Raut , Qaisar Shafi

We investigate dark matter (DM) in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM). We scan through the MSSM parameter space and search for solutions that (a) are consistent with the Higgs discovery and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Tao Han , Zhen Liu , Aravind Natarajan

We construct a 5D $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric model with three D3-branes: two IR ones with negative tension located at the ends of an extra-dimensional interval and a UV-brane with positive tension placed in the middle of the interval --…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-16 Aqeel Ahmed , Bohdan Grzadkowski , John F. Gunion , Yun Jiang

A pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) is an attractive candidate for dark matter since the current severe limits of dark matter direct detection experiments are naturally evaded by its nature. We construct a model with pNGB dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Yoshihiko Abe , Takashi Toma , Koji Tsumura

A pseudo-Nambu Goldstone Boson (pNGB) arising from the breaking of a global symmetry ($G\rightarrow H$) can be one of the most promising candidates for the quintessence model, to explain the late-time acceleration of our universe. Motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-24 Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Nilanjana Kumar , Ankan Mukherjee , Mohit K. Sharma

Persistent excesses in the spectra of gamma rays from the galactic center and cosmic ray antiprotons can be explained by dark matter of mass $50\sim 65$\,GeV annihilating into $b$ quarks, but this is typically hard to reconcile with direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 James M. Cline , Takashi Toma