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An overview of supersymmetry searches is presented, covering collider experiments, direct and indirect searches for supersymmetric dark matter. Recent LHC experimental results are reviewed, and the constraints from B-meson decays are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

Dark photons in the MeV to GeV range with kinetic mixing of the order of $\lesssim 10^{-4}-10^{-3}$ can be produced in significant numbers at low energy colliders such as Belle II. Their decay length can be macroscopic raising the hope for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Joerg Jaeckel , Anh Vu Phan

We present the results of a search for a dark photon decaying to $e^+e^-$ or $\mu^+\mu^-$ in the \babar\ detector. We find no evidence for such a dark photon and set upper limits on the dark mixing as a function mass, tightening the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-09 David Norvil Brown

Dark photon dark matter will resonantly convert into visible photons when the dark photon mass is equal to the plasma frequency of the ambient medium. In cosmological contexts, this transition leads to an extremely efficient, albeit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel J. Witte , Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz , Samuel D. McDermott , Vivian Poulin

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

The dark photon is widely predicted in many new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to utilize the polarized lepton cross section in neutral current DIS process at the HERA and upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Bin Yan

With a distinctive internal structure from all established hadrons, the beauty-charmed baryons $\Xi_{bc}$ can provide us with new points of view to decipher the strong interaction. In this work, we point out that the inclusive $\Xi_{bc} \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-11 Qin Qin , Yu-Ji Shi , Wei Wang , Guo-He Yang , Fu-Sheng Yu , Ruilin Zhu

LHCb is a dedicated detector for $b$ and $c$ physics at the LHC. I will present a concise review of the detector design and performance together with a selection of early physics results and prospects. The integrated luminosity of $37…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-27 Monica Pepe Altarelli

In our recent companion paper [arXiv:2106.00022], we pointed out a novel signature of ultralight kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter. This signature is a quasi-monochromatic, time-oscillating terrestrial magnetic field that takes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Saarik Kalia

Global fit studies performed in the pMSSM and the photon excess signal originating from the Galactic Center seem to suggest compressed electroweak supersymmetric spectra with a $\sim$100 GeV bino-like dark matter particle. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-03 Melissa van Beekveld , Wim Beenakker , Sascha Caron , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We investigate the potential of multivariate techniques to improve the LHC search for invisible Higgs decays in weak boson fusion. We find that in the coming runs the LHC will be able to probe an invisible Higgs width of 28% within a year…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Catherine Bernaciak , Tilman Plehn , Peter Schichtel , Jamie Tattersall

The dark photon is a massive hypothetical particle that interacts with the Standard Model by kinetically mixing with the visible photon. For small values of the mixing parameter, dark photons can evade cosmological bounds to be a viable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 Andrea Caputo , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Edoardo Vitagliano

The dark photon is a well-motivated candidate of dark matter due to its potential to open the window of new physics beyond the Standard Model. A fundamental mass-range-sensitivity dilemma is always haunting the dark photon searching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Runqi Kang , Qingqin Hu , Xiao Cai , Wenlong Yu , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Dark photons in the MeV to GeV mass range are important targets for experimental searches. We consider the case where dark photons $A'$ decay invisibly to hidden dark matter $X$ through $A' \to XX$. For generic masses, proposed accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky

A systematic and unified analysis of the capability of lifetime frontier experiments to probe the parameter space of hypothetical long-lived particles is crucial for defining the targets of future searches. However, such a comprehensive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Yehor Kyselov , Maksym Ovchynnikov

We point out that combinations of parameters that predict large counting rates in experiments searching for supersymmetric dark matter often tend to predict a very large branching ratio for the inclusive decay \bsg. The recent measurement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Francesca M. Borzumati , Manuel Drees , Mihoko M. Nojiri

We propose a new method to hunt for dark matter using dark forest/absorption features across the whole electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma rays, especially in the bands where there is a desert i.e. regions where no strong lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Anoma Ganguly , Rishi Khatri , Tuhin S. Roy

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

If Dark Matter is composed of hidden-sector photons that kinetically mix with photons of the visible sector, then Dark Matter has a tiny oscillating electric field component. Its presence would lead to a small amount of visible radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-02 Babette Döbrich , Kai Daumiller , Ralph Engel , Marek Kowalski , Axel Lindner , Javier Redondo , Markus Roth

Recent results in the field of b and c hadron spectroscopy at the LHCb experiment are presented. The analyses use the data collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity up to 3.0…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Ivan Polyakov