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The WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section in a simple dark matter model and its constraints from the latest direct detection experiment are treated here at the loop level. We consider a scenario with an emerging vector dark matter field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-23 Juan Yepes

The persistent absence of signals in traditional dark matter searches has intensified interest in scenarios beyond the canonical weakly interacting massive particle paradigm. In this work, we investigate the collider phenomenology of feebly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-06 Junzhe Liu , Alfredo Gurrola

Instead of the energy recoil signal at direct detection experiments, dark fermion appears as missing energy at hadron colliders. For a fermionc dark sector particle that coupled with quarks and neutrino via absorption operators, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Kai Ma , Shao-Feng Ge , Lin-Yun He , Ning Zhou

We review the current status of theories and experiments aiming at an understanding and a determination of the properties of light vector and scalar mesons inside strongly interacting hadronic matter. Starting from a discussion of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-06-16 Stefan Leupold , Volker Metag , Ulrich Mosel

We present a new model for radiatively generating Majorana active neutrino masses while incorporating a viable dark matter candidate. This is possible by extending the Standard Model with a single Majorana neutrino endowed with a dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 John N. Ng , Alejandro de la Puente

Dark matter scenarios with spin-0 mediators in the $s$-channel have be tested in well-established processes with missing energy, such as top-pair- and mono-jet-associated production. We suggest electroweak single top production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Tilman Plehn , Jennifer Thompson , Susanne Westhoff

Fermion dark matter (DM) interacting with the standard model through a Higgs portal requires non-renormalizable operators, signaling the presence of new mediator states at the electroweak scale. Collider signatures that involve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Ayres Freitas , Susanne Westhoff , Jure Zupan

The existence of dark matter particles that carry phenomenologically relevant self-interaction cross sections mediated by light dark sector states is considered to be severely constrained through a combination of experimental and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Nicolás Bernal , Xiaoyong Chu , Suchita Kulkarni , Josef Pradler

The search for dark-matter (DM) candidates at high-energy colliders is one of the most promising avenues to understand the nature of this elusive component of the universe. Several searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 Mohamed Belfkir , Adil Jueid , Salah Nasri

We investigate simplified models in which dark matter particles, taken to be either Dirac or Majorana fermions, couple to quarks via colored mediators. We determine bounds from colliders and direct detection experiments, and show how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Anthony DiFranzo , Keiko I. Nagao , Arvind Rajaraman , Tim M. P. Tait

The QCD-like dark sector with GeV-scale dark hadrons has the potential to generate new signatures at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this paper, we consider a singlet scalar mediator in the tens of GeV-scale that connects the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-31 Chih-Ting Lu , Huifang Lv , Wei Shen , Lei Wu , Jia Zhang

High energy colliders provide a new unique way to determine the microscopic properties of the dark matter (DM). Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are widely considered as one of the best DM candidates. It is usually assumed that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Wan Neng , Song Mao , Li Gang , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Jian-You

We consider monojet searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for spin-1 dark matter that interacts with quarks through a contact operator. If the dark matter particles are produced with longitudinal polarizations, then the production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-01 Jason Kumar , Danny Marfatia , David Yaylali

We study the lepton portal dark matter (DM) model in which the relic abundance is determined by the portal coupling among the Majorana fermion DM candidate $\chi$, the singlet charged scalar mediator $S^\pm$ and the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-29 Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

The trouble in detecting low mass dark matter due to its low kinetic energy can be ameliorated in the boosted dark matter framework, where a sub-population of galactic dark matter attains very high energy after being up-scattered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Sk Jeesun

We propose a minimal model of a fermionic dark matter with a pseudoscalar mediator and N generation of vector-like quarks. We calculate the relic density and obtain new constraint on the generation of the aforementioned quarks. Concerning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-10 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad , S. Peyman Zakeri

Assuming that dark matter particles interact with quarks via a GeV-scale mediator, we study dark matter production in fixed target collisions. The ensuing signal in a neutrino near detector consists of neutral-current events with an energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Claudia Frugiuele

We consider a spin~-~3/2 fermionic dark matter candidate (DM) interacting with Standard Model fermions through a vector mediator in the $s$-channel. We find that for pure vector couplings almost the entire parameter space of the DM and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-26 Mohammed Omer Khojali , Ashok Goyal , Mukesh Kumar , Alan S. Cornell

We discuss a flavourful $Z'$ portal model with a coupling to fourth-family singlet Dirac neutrino dark matter. In the absence of mixing, the $Z'$ is fermiophobic, having no couplings to the three chiral families, but does couple to a fourth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-01 Adam Falkowski , Stephen F. King , Elena Perdomo , Mathias Pierre

Z' gauge bosons arise in many particle physics models as mediators between the dark and visible sectors. We exploit dark matter complementarity and derive stringent and robust collider, direct and indirect constraints, as well as limits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Alexandre Alves , Asher Berlin , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz