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We examine indirect detection of dark matter that annihilates into dark glueballs, which in turn decay into the Standard Model via a range of portals. This arises if the dark matter candidate couples to a confining gauge force without light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-23 David Curtin , Caleb Gemmell

We propose and study a purely inelastic scalar dark matter model, where two real scalars-dark matter $\phi_1$ and its excited partner $\phi_2$ interact with the Standard Model via a Higgs portal. After mass diagonalization, only inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Jinhui Guo , Jia Liu , Chenhao Peng , Xiao-Ping Wang

We study a gauge-singlet vector-like fermion hidden-sector dark matter model, in which the communication between the dark matter and the visible standard model sector is via the Higgs-portal scalar-Higgs mixing, and also via a hidden-sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-18 Shrihari Gopalakrishna , Tuhin Subhra Mukherjee

We investigate the feasibility of the indirect detection of dark matter in a simple model using the neutrino portal. The model is very economical, with right-handed neutrinos generating neutrino masses through the Type-I seesaw mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Brian Batell , Tao Han , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

Solving the Dark Matter enigma represents one of the key objectives of contemporary physics. Recent astrophysical and cosmological measurements have unambiguously demonstrated that ordinary matter contributes to less than 5 % of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriel Chardin

Sub-GeV dark matter candidates are of increasing interest, because long-favored candidates such as GeV-scale WIMPs have not been detected. For low-mass dark matter, model-independent constraints are weak or nonexistent. We show that for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-09 Christopher V. Cappiello , Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom

We study the indirect detection of dark matter when the local dark matter velocity distribution depends upon position, as expected for the Milky Way and its dwarf spheroidal satellites, and the annihilation cross-section is not purely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesc Ferrer , Daniel R. Hunter

We review dark matter (DM) candidates of a very low mass, appearing in the window below the traditional weakly-interacting massive particle $m_\chi \lesssim 10$ GeV and extending down to $m_\chi \gtrsim 1$ meV, somewhat below the mass limit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Kathryn M. Zurek

Indirect detection is the search for the particle nature of dark matter with astrophysical probes. Manifestly, it exists right at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics, and the discovery potential for dark matter can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-21 Nicholas L. Rodd

Dark matter is one of the pillars of the current standard model of structure formation: it is assumed to constitute most of the matter in the Universe. However, it can so far only be probed indirectly through its gravitational effects, and…

We study a fermionic dark matter in a non-supersymmetric extension of the standard model with a family symmetry based on D6xZ2xZ2. In our model, the final state of the dark matter annihilation is determined to be e+ e- by the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Yuji Kajiyama , Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

Null results from dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments and the 125 GeV Higgs both pose serious challenges to minimal supersymmetry. In this paper, we propose a simple extension of the MSSM that economically solves both problems: a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Aria Basirnia , Sebastian Macaluso , David Shih

The most natural region of cosmologically compatible dark matter relic density in terms of low fine-tuning in a minimal supersymmetric standard model with nonuniversal gaugino masses is the so called bulk annihilation region. We study this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-24 Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Rao , D. P. Roy

In this talk, we will review Inert Triplet Model (ITM) which provide candidate for dark matter (DM) particles. Then we study possible decays of Higgs boson to DM candidate and apply current experimental data for invisible Higgs decay to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , S. Mahdi Firouzabadi

We calculate the pair-annihilation cross section of real scalar singlet dark matter into two mono-energetic photons. We derive constraints on the theory parameter space from the Fermi limits on gamma-ray lines, and we compare with current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Carroll Wainwright

Dark Matter (DM) may belong to a hidden sector that is only feebly interacting with the Standard Model (SM) and may have never been in thermal equilibrium in the Early Universe. In this case, the observed abundance of dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-07 Thomas Hambye , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele , Laurent Vanderheyden

In this paper we study a real scalar field as a possible candidate to explain the dark matter in the universe. In the context of a free scalar field with quadratic potential, we have used Union 2.1 SN Ia observational data jointly with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 J. F. Jesus , S. H. Pereira , J. L. G. Malatrasi , F. Andrade-Oliveira

One of the most promising strategies to identify the nature of dark matter consists in the search for new particles at accelerators and with so-called direct detection experiments. Working within the framework of simplified models, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-04 Gianfranco Bertone , Nassim Bozorgnia , Jong Soo Kim , Sebastian Liem , Christopher McCabe , Sydney Otten , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Recent high-quality observations of dwarf and low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies have shown that their dark matter (DM) halos prefer flat central density profiles. On the other hand the standard cold dark matter model simulations predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 T. Matos , Victor H. Robles

Most proposed dark matter candidates are stable and are produced thermally in the early Universe. However, there is also the possibility of unstable (but long-lived) dark matter, produced thermally or otherwise. We propose a strategy to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins