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We propose a methodology to infer the reheat temperature ($T_{\rm RH}$) of the Universe from the collider signal of freezing in dark matter (DM). We demonstrate it for the mono-$\gamma$ signal at the electron-positron colliders, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Basabendu Barman , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Dipankar Pradhan , Abhik Sarkar

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 explore the properties of self-conjugate dark matter (DM) particles that predominantly interact with Standard Model electroweak gauge bosons, using an effective field theory approach. The study emphasizes effective contact interactions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-06 Hrishabh Bharadwaj

We investigate the power of low-energy, high-luminosity electron--positron colliders to probe hidden sectors with a mass below ~10 GeV that couple to Standard Model particles through a light mediator. Such sectors provide well-motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-24 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Michele Papucci , Tomer Volansky , Yi-Ming Zhong

In this work we study a scalar field dark matter model with mass of the order of 100 MeV. We assume dark matter is produced in the process $e^-+e^+\to \phi +\phi^*+\gamma$, that, in fact, could be a background for the standard process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-06 F. Rossi-Torres , C. A. Moura

In this study, the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to WIMP dark matter is evaluated assuming WIMP pair production accompanied by a photon from initial state radiation, through which the process can be identified. A full detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-06 Moritz Habermehl , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

In the Kinetic Mixing (KM) portal scenario, the interaction of dark matter (DM) with the particles of the Standard Model (SM) is generated by diagrams connecting the familiar photon with its dark sector analog, the dark photon (DP), via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Thomas G. Rizzo

Electron positron collisions are a very promising environment to search for new physics, and in particular for dark sector related observables. The most challenging experimental problem in detecting dark sector candidates is the very high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Paolo Ciafaloni , Gabriele Martelli , Mauro Raggi

Compact stellar objects are promising cosmic laboratories to test the nature of dark matter (DM). DM captured by the strong gravitational field of these stellar remnants transfers kinetic energy to the star during the collision. This can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sandra Robles

New physics close to the electroweak scale is well motivated by a number of theoretical arguments. However, colliders, most notably the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have failed to deliver evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. One…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Sebastian Baum , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

Dark matter remains one of the most puzzling mysteries in Fundamental Physics of our times. Experiments at high-energy physics colliders are expected to shed light to its nature and determine its properties. This review focuses on recent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-12-10 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

We investigate a possibility of neutralino dark matter (DM) direct detection in the future electron accelerators. That is counting of high p_T electron recoil events by neutralinos in halo. If selectron and neutralino masses would be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Junji Hisano , Minoru Nagai , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Masato Senami

The identification and isolation of two WIMP dark matter (DM) components at colliders is of wide interest on the one hand but extremely challenging on the other, especially when the dominant signal of both DM components is of the mono-X…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Purusottam Ghosh , Jayita Lahiri , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

If dark matter (DM) particles are lighter than a few MeV/$c^2$ and can scatter off electrons, their interaction within the solar interior results in a considerable hardening of the spectrum of galactic dark matter received on Earth. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

The LHC may produce light, weakly-interacting particles that decay to dark matter, creating an intense and highly collimated beam of dark matter particles in the far-forward direction. We investigate the prospects for detecting this dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Brian Batell , Jonathan L. Feng , Ahmed Ismail , Felix Kling , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Sebastian Trojanowski

For the first time, the production of a massive dark photon (DP) in the $\gamma e^-$ scattering at the future lepton colliders ILC, CLIC, and CEPC is examined. The invisible decay mode of the DP is addressed. We have studied both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

One of the interesting portals linking a dark sector and the standard model (SM) is the kinetic mixing between the SM $U(1)_Y$ field with a new dark photon $A'$ from a $U(1)_{A'}$ gauge interaction. Stringent limits have been obtained for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Min He , Xiao-Gang He , Cheng-Kai Huang

In a large class of scenarios, dark matter (DM) particles that belong to a multiplet of the standard model (SM) weak interactions are challenging to probe in direct detection experiments due to loop-suppressed cross-sections. Direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-15 Tao Han , Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay , Xing Wang

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

We reappraise the viability of asymmetric dark matter (ADM) realized as a Dirac fermion coupling dominantly to the Standard Model fermions. Treating the interactions of such a DM particle with quarks/leptons in an effective-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Arnab Roy , Basudeb Dasgupta , Monoranjan Guchait