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In this work, we discuss the relation between the strength of the self-interaction of dark matter particles and the predicted properties of the inner density distributions of dark matter haloes. We present the results of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Anastasia Sokolenko , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Thejs Brinckmann , Jesús Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Torsten Bringmann , Alexey Boyarsky

We explore an autonomous system analysis of dark energy models with interactions between dark energy and cold dark matter in a general systematic approach to cosmological fluids. We investigate two types of models such as local and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Parth Shah , Gauranga C. Samanta , Kazuharu Bamba , R. Myrzakulov

We propose here a set of new methods to directly detect light mass dark matter through its scattering with abundant atmospheric muons or accelerator beams. Firstly, we plan to use the free cosmic-ray muons interacting with dark matter in a…

Dark matter direct detection experiments are going to touch the neutrino floor with a good chance to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and a probe of neutrino-related new physics ($\nu$NP). In this study, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

We study the case of multi-component dark matter, in particular how direct detection signals are modified in the presence of several stable weakly-interacting-massive particles. Assuming a positive signal in a future direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Juan Herrero-Garcia , Andre Scaffidi , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

Dark matter direct detection searches for signals coming from dark matter scattering against nuclei at a very low recoil energy scale ~ 10 keV. In this paper, a simple non-relativistic effective theory is constructed to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 JiJi Fan , Matthew Reece , Lian-Tao Wang

We develop a new halo-independent strategy for analyzing emerging DM hints, utilizing the method of extended maximum likelihood. This approach does not require the binning of events, making it uniquely suited to the analysis of emerging DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrick J. Fox , Yonatan Kahn , Matthew McCullough

Direct detection experiments aim at the detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by searching for signals from elastic dark matter nucleus scattering. Additionally, inelastic scattering in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 G. Arcadi , C. Döring , C. Hasterok , S. Vogl

The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Jennifer M. Gaskins

In this review article the current status of particle dark matter is addressed. We discuss the main theoretical extensions of the standard model which allow to explain dark matter in terms of a (yet undiscovered) elementary particle. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolao Fornengo

In this thesis, I study the expected direct and indirect detection signals of dark matter. More precisely, I study three aspects of dark matter; I use hydrodynamic simulations to extract properties of weakly interacting dark matter that are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-06 Lina Necib

In this talk we present data analysis methods for reconstructing the mass and couplings of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using directly future experimental data (i.e., measured recoil energies) from direct Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-21 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

A large experimental program is underway to extend the sensitivity of direct detection experiments, searching for interaction of Dark Matter with nuclei, down to the neutrino floor. However, such experiments are becoming increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-28 Sebastian Baum , Andrzej K. Drukier , Katherine Freese , Maciej Górski , Patrick Stengel

We discuss a framework (based on non-relativistic operators) and a self-contained set of numerical tools to derive the bounds from some current direct detection experiments on virtually any arbitrary model of Dark Matter elastically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-17 Eugenio Del Nobile , Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci

Various issues related to the direct detection of supersymmetric dark matter are reviewed. Such are: 1) Construction of supersymmetric models with a number of parameters, which are constrained from the data at low energies as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

In this article I review two data analysis methods for determining the mass (and eventually the spin-independent cross section on nucleons) of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with positive signals from direct Dark Matter detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Chung-Lin Shan

Direct dark matter detection focuses on elastic scattering of dark matter particles off nuclei. In this study, we explore inelastic scattering where the nucleus is excited to a low-lying state of 10-100 keV, with subsequent prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-01 L. Baudis , G. Kessler , P. Klos , R. F. Lang , J. Menendez , S. Reichard , A. Schwenk

In this work we study the constraints on the dark matter interaction with the standard model particles, from the observations of dark matter relic density, the direct detection experiments of CDMS and XENON, and the indirect detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-07 Jia-Ming Zheng , Zhao-Huan Yu , Jun-Wen Shao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Zhibing Li , Hong-Hao Zhang

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments aim to place constraints on the DM--nucleon scattering cross-section and the DM particle mass. These constraints depend sensitively on the assumed local DM density and velocity distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Robert Poole-McKenzie , Andreea S. Font , Billy Boxer , Ian G. McCarthy , Sergey Burdin , Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown