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The discovery of neutrino oscillations implies that neutrinos are massive and mixed, necessitating an extension of the Standard Model, which may require the introduction of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Sudip Jana , Sophie Klett

The present work aims to study an extension of the Standard Model (SM) that addresses the prominent SM shortcomings, i.e., can explain the neutrino mass, the dark matter (DM) content, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Laura Covi , Shyamashish Dey , Sarif Khan , Santosh Kumar Rai

Searches for dark matter at colliders typically involve signatures with energetic initial-state radiation without visible recoil particles. Searches for mono-jet or mono-photon signatures have yielded powerful constraints on dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Linda M. Carpenter , Andrew Nelson , Chase Shimmin , Tim M. P. Tait , Daniel Whiteson

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. In this paper, we consider how neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

Neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model (BSM) are theoretically well motivated and have an important impact on the future precision measurement of neutrino oscillation. In this work, we study the sensitivity of a multi-ton-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-05 Jonathan M. Link , Xun-Jie Xu

We explore a new mechanism for reproducing the Dark Matter (DM) abundance: scatterings of one DM particle on light Standard Model particles. Strong bounds on its decays can be satisfied if DM undergoes freeze-in and has a mass around or…

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

The study of collision events with missing energy as searches for the dark matter (DM) component of the Universe are an essential part of the extensive program looking for new physics at the LHC. Given the unknown nature of DM, the…

Monojet and monophoton final states with large missing transverse energy (${\not E}_T$) are important for dark matter (DM) searches at colliders. We present analytic expressions for the differential cross sections for the parton-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Vernon Barger , Wai-Yee Keung , Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng

This paper investigates the collider phenomenolgy of a minimal nonthermal dark matter model with a 1-GeV dark matter candidate, which naturally explain baryongensis. Since the light dark matter is not parity-protected, it can be singly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Teruki Kamon

We study the prospect of dark matter (DM) searches in the monojet channel at future $pp$ colliders with center-of-mass energies of 33, 50, and 100~TeV. We consider a class of simplified models in which a vector boson connecting DM particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Qian-Fei Xiang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

In this paper we investigate impacts of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs) to the limitations on the discovery potential of dark matter in direct detection experiments. New neutrino floors are derived taking into account current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Wei Chao , Jian-guo Jiang , Xuan Wang , Xing-yu Zhang

Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter particles with nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair production at a hadron collider, and with the addition of initial state radiation this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

We study the prospects of characterising Dark Matter at colliders using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. We focus on the monojet and missing transverse energy (MET) channel and propose a set of benchmark models for the study: a typical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 C. K. Khosa , V. Sanz , M. Soughton

Simplified models of the dark matter (co)annihilation mechanism predict striking new collider signatures untested by current searches. These models, which were codified in the coannihilation codex, provide the basis for a dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Malte Buschmann , Sonia El Hedri , Anna Kaminska , Jia Liu , Maikel de Vries , Xiao-Ping Wang , Felix Yu , Jose Zurita

We develop a method to forecast the outcome of the LHC Run 3 based on the hypothetical detection of $\mathcal{O}(100)$ signal events at XENONnT. Our method relies on a systematic classification of renormalisable single-mediator models for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Sebastian Baum , Riccardo Catena , Jan Conrad , Katherine Freese , Martin B. Krauss

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

Astrophysical observations provide compelling evidence for gravitationally interacting dark matter in the universe that cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. The extraordinary amount of data from the CERN LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-08 CMS Collaboration

We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

We consider minimal dark matter scenarios featuring momentum-dependent couplings of the dark sector to the Standard Model. We derive constraints from existing LHC searches in the monojet channel, estimate the future LHC sensitivity for an…