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Assuming that Dark Matter (DM) is made of fermions in the sub-GeV mass range with interactions dominated by electromagnetic moments of higher order, such as the electric and magnetic dipoles or the anapole moment, we show that direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-09 Riccardo Catena , Timon Emken , Julia Ravanis

A strong absorption profile was reported by the EDGES Collaboration, which indicates the hydrogen gas being colder than expected. It could be signatures of non-gravitational interactions between normal matter and dark matter (DM), and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Lian-Bao Jia

We study the multi-wavelength signal induced by pairs annihilations at the Galactic center (GC) of a recently proposed dark matter (DM) candidate. The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) candidate, named A_, is the first Kaluza-Klein…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Regis

We consider a fermionic dark matter (DM) particle in renormalizable Standard Model (SM) gauge interactions in a simple $t$-channel model. The DM particle interactions with SM fermions is through the exchange of scalar and vector mediators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Ashok Goyal , Mukesh Kumar

We consider a scalar dark matter annihilations to light leptons mediated by charged exotic fermions. The interaction of this model also adds a correction to dipole moments of light leptons. In the simplified model, these processes will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-09 Keita Fukushima

We study the dark matter (DM) annihilation signals from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the impact of the LMC on the DM annihilation signals from the Milky Way (MW) halo, using a MW-LMC analogue from the Auriga magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Evan Vienneau , Evan Batteas , Addy J. Evans , Odelia V. Hartl , Nassim Bozorgnia , Louis E. Strigari

We investigate the phenomenology of a simplified model with a Majorana fermion as dark matter candidate which interacts with Standard Model quarks via a colour-charged coannihilation partner. Recently it has been realized that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 S. Biondini , S. Vogl

This study explores a minimal renormalizable dark matter (DM) model, incorporating a sub-GeV Majorana DM and a singlet scalar particle $\phi$. Using scalar and pseudo-scalar interactions (couplings $c_s$ and $c_p$), we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Yu-Tong Chen , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu

We study the scenario of fermionic dark matter that annihilates to standard model fermions through an s-channel axial vector mediator. We point out that the well-known chirality suppression of the annihilation cross section can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-06 Jason Kumar , Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia

We analyse dark matter (DM) produced somehow in space-time is charged under the hidden $U^{\prime} (1)$ gauge symmetry and interacting with Standard Model (SM) through the scale invariance breaking sector containing dilatons and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-11 Gennady Kozlov

We propose an economical model to explain the apparent 130 GeV gamma ray peak, found in the Fermi/LAT data, in terms of dark matter annihilation through a dipole moment interaction. The annihilating dark matter particles represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey , Guy D. Moore

We investigate the relation between the annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles into lepton pairs and into 2-body final states including one or two photons. We parametrize the DM interactions with leptons in terms of contact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Adam Coogan , Stefano Profumo , William Shepherd

We consider a model in which dark matter is a light (350 MeV) Dirac fermion which couples to quarks as an axial-vector current. At center-of-mass (CM) energies below the confinement scale, such a DM interaction structure may be described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-19 Dillon Berger

We consider dark matter which have non-zero electromagnetic form factors like electric/magnetic dipole moments and anapole moment for fermionic dark matter and Rayleigh form factor for scalar dark matter. We consider dark matter mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Gaetano Lambiase , Subhendra Mohanty , Akhilesh Nautiyal , Soumya Rao

Dark matter constitutes one of the most intriguing but so far unresolved issues in physics today. In many extensions of the Standard Model the existence of a stable Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is predicted. The WIMP is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Tomi Ylinen , Yvonne Edmonds , Elliott D. Bloom , Jan Conrad

Detecting the cosmic rays, in particular gamma-ray, coming from the dark matter annihilation or decay is an indirect way to survey the nature of the dark matter. In the commutative space-time, the annihilation of the dark matter candidates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 M. M. Ettefaghi

We propose a scenario with a fermion dark matter, where the dark matter particle used to be the Dirac fermion, but it takes the form of the Majorana fermion at a late time. The relic number density of the dark matter is determined by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

Extra dimensions can be very useful tools when constructing new physics models. Previously, we began investigating toy models for the 5-D analog of the kinetic mixing/vector portal scenario where the interactions of bulk dark matter with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Thomas G. Rizzo

The search for Majorana fermions in p-wave paired fermionic systems has recently moved to the forefront of condensed-matter research. Here we propose an alternative route and show theoretically that Majorana-like modes can be realized and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-07 C. -E. Bardyn , A. Imamoglu