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We study a simple model of thermal dark matter annihilating to standard model neutrinos via the neutrino portal. A (pseudo-)Dirac sterile neutrino serves as a mediator between the visible and the dark sectors, while an approximate lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Brian Batell , Tao Han , David McKeen , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

Dark matter (DM) is usually assumed to be stabilized by a symmetry, which is mostly considered to be $Z_2$. For example, in supersymmetry it is $R$ parity, i.e. $(-1)^{3B+L+2j}$. However, it may be $Z_n$ or $U(1)_D$, and derivable from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-28 Ernest Ma

Light scalars appear in many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model including supersymmetric models with additional gauge singlets. Such scalars could mediate the interactions between dark matter and nuclei, giving rise to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-18 Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Florian Staub , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

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 review simplified models in which a singlet Majorana dark matter candidate couples to Standard Model (SM) fermions through interactions mediated by scalar fermion partners. We summarize the two primary production mechanisms in these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 Tathagata Ghosh , Chris Kelso , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

In this paper we study a leptophilic dark matter scenario involving feeble dark matter coupling to the Standard Model (SM) and compressed dark matter-mediator mass spectrum. We consider a simplified model where the SM is extended with one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sam Junius , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Alberto Mariotti

We discuss a model with a dark sector, in which smallness of mass for charged leptons and neutrinos can naturally be explained by one-loop effects mediated by particles in the dark sector. These new particles, including dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Ryomei Obuchi , Kei Yagyu

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and axions are arguably the most compelling dark matter (DM) candidates in the literature. Here, we consider a model where the PQ symmetry solves the strong CP problem, generates radiatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Robinson Longas , Andres Rivera , Cristian Ruiz , David Suarez

Light vector mediators can naturally induce velocity-dependent dark matter self-interactions while at the same time allowing for the correct dark matter relic abundance via thermal freeze-out. If these mediators subsequently decay into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-03 Michael Duerr , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Sebastian Wild

We propose a novel cogenesis mechanism by utilising the two-body decay of heavy vector-like fermions to dark matter (DM) $\chi$ and right chiral part of light Dirac neutrino $\nu_R$ via the electromagnetic dipole operator. This leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

We propose a new gauged $B-L$ extension of the standard model where light neutrinos are of Dirac type, naturally acquiring sub-eV mass after electroweak symmetry breaking, without any additional global symmetries. This is realised by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Dibyendu Nanda , Debasish Borah

We propose a model which explains the baryon asymmetry of the universe and dark matter relic density at the same time. In this model, dark matter candidate is the dark baryon composed by dark quarks. A scalar mediator, which couples to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Mengchao Zhang

We propose the first scotogenic neutrino mass model with gauged lepton number $U(1)_L$, which is spontaneously broken by three units $\Delta L=3$ down to a residual discrete gauge symmetry $\mathbb{Z}_6$. The latter guarantees that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 A. E. Cárcamo Hernández , Andrés Enríquez , Sergey Kovalenko , Eduardo Peinado , Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo

We study the discovery prospects of leptophilic dark matter (DM) in future lepton colliders by considering the light neutrinos to be of Dirac type. Adopting an effective field theory (EFT) approach, we write down dimension six operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Debasish Borah , Nayan Das , Sahabub Jahedi , Bhavya Thacker

We propose a simple framework to split neutrinos with a slight departure from tribimaximal mixing - where two of the neutrinos are Majorana type which provide thermal leptogenesis. The Dirac neutrino with a tiny Yukawa coupling explains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Anupam Mazumdar , Stefano Morisi

We consider a dark sector model containing stable fermions charged under an unbroken $U(1)$ gauge interaction, with a massless dark photon as force carrier, and interacting with ordinary matter via scalar messengers. We study its early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Jan Tristram Acuña , Marco Fabbrichesi , Piero Ullio

We investigate the thermal cosmology and terrestrial and astrophysical phenomenology of a sub-GeV hadrophilic dark sector. The specific construction explored in this work features a Dirac fermion dark matter candidate interacting with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-27 Brian Batell , Ayres Freitas , Ahmed Ismail , David McKeen

We propose a "scotogenic" mechanism relating small neutrino mass and cosmological dark matter. Neutrinos are Dirac fermions with masses arising only in two--loop order through the sector responsible for dark matter. Two triality symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Cesar Bonilla , Ernest Ma , Eduardo Peinado , Jose W. F. Valle

The classical conservation of the lepton number is an accidental symmetry present in the Standard Model (SM). Thus, we consider here a scenario where the SM is extended with a U(1) gauge group, promoting the lepton number to a local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Utkarsh Patel , Avnish , Sudhanwa Patra , Kirtiman Ghosh

We propose a model to explain several muon-related experimental anomalies and the abundance of dark matter. We introduce an vector-like exotic lepton that form an iso-doublet and three right-handed Majorana fermions as an iso-singlet. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Hiroshi Okada