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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

Dark matter (DM) plays a crucial role in explaining the observed astrophysical anomalies, galaxy rotation curves, and other fundamental characteristics of the Universe. Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as the dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-16 Vindhyawasini Prasad

Higgs portal dark matter (DM) models are simple interesting and viable DM models. There are three types of the models depending on the DM spin: scalar, fermion and vector DM models. In this paper, we consider renormalizable, unitary and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 P. Ko , Hiroshi Yokoya

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 study classically scale invariant models in which the Standard Model Higgs mass term is replaced in the Lagrangian by a Higgs portal coupling to a complex scalar field of a dark sector. We focus on models that are weakly coupled with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , William A. Bardeen , Martin Bauer , Marcela Carena , Joseph D. Lykken

We consider a neutrino Two Higgs Doublet Model ($\nu$THDM) in which neutrinos obtain {\it naturally} small Dirac masses from the soft symmetry breaking of a global $U(1)_X$ symmetry. We extended the model so the soft term is generated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-05 Seungwon Baek , Arindam Das , Takaaki Nomura

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

Non-Abelian Vector Boson Dark Matter (VBDM), arising from an $SU(2)_N$ extension of the Standard Model (SM) has been studied. The Dark Matter (DM) is stabilized by imposing an additional discrete global symmetry $S^{'}$ with charges, such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-05 Himadri Roy

We reanalyze the effective field theory approach for the scenario in which the particles that account for the dark matter (DM) in the universe are vector states that interact only or mainly through the Standard Model-like Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Giorgio Arcadi , Abdelhak Djouadi , Marumi Kado

We explore the potential of the $e^+ e^-$ colliders to discover dark matter and determine its properties such as mass and the spin. For this purpose we study spin zero and spin one-half cases of dark matter, $D$ which belongs to $SU(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Alexander Belyaev , Arran Freegard , Ilya F. Ginzburg , Daniel Locke , Alexander Pukhov

In many new physics models with extended gauge symmetry, the new gauge boson $Z'$ could mediate the interactions between the dark matter and standard model particles. For the conventional $Z^\prime$ portal dark matter, the collider and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhen-Wei Wang , Zhi-Long Han , Fei Huang , Honglei Li , Ang Liu

We describe a simple dark sector structure which, if present, has implications for the direct detection of dark matter (DM): the Dark Sink. A Dark Sink transports energy density from the DM into light dark-sector states that do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-02 Prudhvi N. Bhattiprolu , Robert McGehee , Aaron Pierce

We provide a simple UV theory for a Dirac dark matter with a massless Abelian gauge boson. We introduce a single fermion transforming as the $\bf{16}$ representation in the SO(10)$'$ gauge group, which is assumed to be spontaneously broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Ayuki Kamada , Masaki Yamada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We study a class of dark matter models in which the dark matter is a baryon-like composite particle of a confining gauge group and also a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the breaking of an enhanced chiral symmetry group. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-08 Matthew R. Buckley , Ethan T. Neil

We investigate the dark parton shower effects in the direct detection of cosmic-ray boosted dark matter (CRDM), focusing on a dark photon-mediated model with fermionic dark matter-electron interactions. Utilizing a Monte Carlo framework to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-16 Zirong Chen , Shao-Feng Ge , Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Feng Yang , Cong Zhang

Dark matter is postulated as a light fermion in two natural scenarios as the outcome of a softly broken discrete symmetry. It is produced from the naturally suppressed decay of the standard-model Higgs boson through the freeze-in mechanism.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Ernest Ma

We have studied the complete set of dimension 5 and dimension 6 effective operators involving the interaction of scalar, fermion and vector Dark Matter (DM) with SM quarks and gluons, to explore the possibility to distinguish these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Alexander Belyaev , Luca Panizzi , Alexander Pukhov , Marc Thomas

In this paper, we explore a dark sector scenario with a gauged $SU(2)_R$ and a global $U(1)_X \times \mathbb{Z}_2$, where the continuous symmetries are spontaneously broken to a global $U(1)_D$. We show that in various regions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Fatemeh Elahi , Sara Khatibi

We propose a scalar dark matter model featuring a hidden gauge symmetry, denoted as U(1)_X, with two complex scalars, Phi and S. In this framework, Phi spontaneously breaks the U(1)_X gauge symmetry, while S serves as a viable dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Yu-Hang Su , Chengfeng Cai , Yu-Pan Zeng , Hong-Hao Zhang

We study dark matter scattering off ${}^4$He and other light nuclei using chiral effective field theory. We consider scalar DM interactions and include both one- and two-nucleon scattering processes. The DM interactions and nuclear wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 J. de Vries , C. Körber , A. Nogga , S. Shain