English
Related papers

Related papers: Strongly self-interacting vector dark matter via f…

200 papers

We investigate a simplified freeze-in dark-matter model in which the dark matter only interacts with the standard-model neutrinos via a light scalar. The extremely small coupling for the freeze-in mechanism is naturally realized in several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Yong Du , Fei Huang , Hao-Lin Li , Jiang-Hao Yu

The clockwork mechanism allows extremely weak interactions and small mass scales to be understood in terms of the structure of a theory. A natural application of the clockwork mechanism is to the freeze-in mechanism for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-12 Jinsu Kim , John McDonald

The hypothesis of dark matter interacting with the standard model uniquely via the Higgs portal is severely challenged by experiments. However, if dark matter is a fermion, the Higgs-portal interaction implies the presence of mediators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-18 Susanne Westhoff

In this paper, we construct two component dark matter model and revisit fine-tuning, unitarity and vacuum stability problem in this framework. Through Higgs-portal interactions, the additional scalar and vector singlet field can interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Ligong Bian , Ran Ding , Bin Zhu

An appealing framework for dark matter is provided by light hidden sectors, below the electroweak scale, feebly coupled to the Standard Model via light mediators. We consider a minimal, predictive model where both the dark matter and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Ana Luisa Foguel , Renata Zukanovich Funchal , Michele Frigerio

We study a simple model of vector dark matter that couples to Standard Model particles via magnetic dipole interactions. In this scenario, the cosmological abundance arises through the freeze-in mechanism and depends on the dipole coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-14 Gordan Krnjaic , Duncan Rocha , Anastasia Sokolenko

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

We introduce a new class of renormalisable models, consisting of a dark $SU(2)_D$ gauge sector connected to the Standard Model (SM) through a Vector-Like (VL) fermion mediator, not requiring a Higgs portal, in which a massive vector boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 A. Belyaev , A. Deandrea , S. Moretti , L. Panizzi , N. Thongyoi

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can address the small-scale anomalies and previous researches focused on such a SIDM heavier than GeV, for which the self-scattering cross-section is in the quantum resonance region and has a non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Wu-Long Xu , Jin Min Yang , Bin Zhu

We propose a two-component asymmetric FIMP (feebly interacting massive particle) dark matter (DM) model in which both DM candidates are real scalar fields. The model is an extension of the Standard Model (SM) by two scalar DM components and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 S. Peyman Zakeri

We revisit the Higgs portal vector dark matter model including a hidden sector Higgs field that generates the mass of the vector dark matter. The model becomes renormalizable and has two scalar bosons, the mixtures of the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Seungwon Baek , P. Ko , Wan-Il Park , Eibun Senaha

Warm dark matter (WDM) of order keV mass may be able to resolve the disagreement between structure formation in cold dark matter simulations and observations. The detailed properties of WDM will depend upon its energy distribution, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 John McDonald

We present a model featuring sub-GeV vector dark matter by augmenting the Standard Model with a new non-Abelian dark $SU(2)_D$, spontaneously broken by the vacuum expectation values of a scalar doublet and a triplet. Interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Avik Banerjee , Riccardo Catena , Taylor R. Gray

As experimental searches for WIMP dark matter continue to yield null results, models beyond the WIMP paradigm have proliferated in order to elude ever improving observational constraints, among them that of sub-GeV dark matter mediated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 George N. Wojcik , Thomas G. Rizzo

We investigate the possibility of having a vector boson dark matter in a $U(1)_X$ extended two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) setup. The gauge boson gains mass when a SM singlet complex scalar, which is charged under the dark $U(1)_X$ symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Nandini Das , Juhi Dutta , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Santosh Kumar Rai

We investigate a minimal neutrino portal dark matter (DM) model where a right-handed neutrino both generates the observed neutrino masses and mediates between the SM and the dark sector, which consists of a fermion and a boson. In contrast…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Mathias Becker

We present a Vector Dark Matter (VDM) model that explains the 3.5 keV line recently observed in the XMM-Newton observatory data from galaxy clusters. In this model, dark matter is composed of two vector bosons, $V$ and $V^\prime$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-25 Yasaman Farzan , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

We study observational consequences arising from dark matter (DM) of non-thermal origin, produced by dark freeze-out from a hidden sector heat bath. We assume this heat bath was populated by feebly-coupled mediator particles, produced via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Matti Heikinheimo , Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen

Dark matter could emerge along with the Higgs as a composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson $\chi$ with decay constant $f\sim \mathrm{TeV}$. This type of WIMP is especially compelling because its leading interaction with the Standard Model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-20 Reuven Balkin , Maximilian Ruhdorfer , Ennio Salvioni , Andreas Weiler