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We consider laboratory experiments that can detect stable, neutral strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs). We explore the SIMP annihilation cross section from its minimum value (restricted by cosmological bounds) to the barn range,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 R. N. Mohapatra , F. Olness , R. Stroynowski , V. L. Teplitz

We study a scenario in which the only light new particles are a Majorana fermion dark matter candidate and one or more QCD-charged scalars, which couple to light quarks. This scenario has several interesting phenomenological features if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Andrew Davidson , Chris Kelso , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

We consider the special case that the dark matter (DM) candidate is not detected in direct-detection programs when the experimental sensitivity reaches the neutrino flux background. In such circumstance the DM searches at the colliders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-18 Qing-Hong Cao , Ti Gong , Ke-Pan Xie , Zhen Zhang

The existence of dark matter as evidenced by numerous indirect observations is one of the most important indications that there must be physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This article reviews the concepts of direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Marc Schumann

High energy e$^+$e$^-$ colliders offer unique possibility for the most general dark matter search based on the mono-photon signature. Analysis of the energy spectrum and angular distributions of photons from the initial state radiation can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-15 Jan Kalinowski , Wojciech Kotlarski , Krzysztof Mekala , Kamil Zembaczynski , Aleksander Filip Zarnecki

The cold dark matter (CDM) candidate with weakly interacting massive particles can successfully explain the observed dark matter relic density in cosmic scale and the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, a number of observations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Chung Kao , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Gwo-Guang Wong

In the left-right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, the neutral $\hat{S}$ is a candidate for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). If its mass is lighter than half of the SM-like Higgs boson $h$, the new invisible decay $h \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-23 Yao-Bei Liu , Zhen-Jun Xiao

We study a two component dark matter candidate inspired by the Minimal Walking Technicolor model. Dark matter consists of a dominant SIMP-like dark atom component made of bound states between primordial helium nuclei and a doubly charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , C. Kouvaris , M. Laletin

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues

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

In this study, the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to WIMP dark matter is evaluated assuming WIMP pair production accompanied by a photon from initial state radiation, through which the process can be identified. A full detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-06 Moritz Habermehl , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

From an assumed signal in a Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiment a lower bound on the product of the DM--nucleon scattering cross section and the local DM density is derived, which is independent of the local DM velocity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Mattias Blennow , Juan Herrero-Garcia , Thomas Schwetz , Stefan Vogl

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) continue to be considered some of the best-motivated Dark Matter (DM) candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct,…

A minimal model of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) is a very massive particle with only gravitational interactions, also called Planckian Interacting Dark Matter (PIDM). Here we consider an extension of the PIDM framework by an unbroken $U(1)$ gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Mathias Garny , Andrea Palessandro , McCullen Sandora , Martin S. Sloth

We investigate novel strategies to extend the sensitivity of dark matter direct detection experiments to energy deposits well below the thresholds of conventional detectors. In liquid-argon time-projection chambers equipped with silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-12 Faeq Abed , Asmaa AlMellah , Kareem Al-Jubouri , Alex Lumoski

A simple model of Dark Matter (DM) which couples with the two nucleons with different coupling strengths without violating isospin conservation is explored as an example of the importance of keeping the experimental data analysis as model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-21 F. Giuliani

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are among the favored candidates for cold dark matter in the universe. The phenomenology of supersymmetric WIMPs has been quite developed during recent years. However, there are other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. A. Baltz , L. Bergstrom

In this work, we consider an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with an inert Higgs doublet and a real scalar singlet, in order to address problems around the origin of dark matter (DM). In this model, the lightest among the CP-odd and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Mohammed Omer Khojali , Ammar Abdalgabar , Amine Ahriche , Alan S. Cornell

The lightest neutralino, assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle, is proposed to be a dark matter (DM) candidate for the mass $\cal{O}$(100) GeV. Constraints from various direct dark matter detection experiments and Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Monoranjan Guchait , Arnab Roy , Seema Sharma

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