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We present a model of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter that interacts through a light vector mediator based on a spontaneously broken $SU(2)$ dark sector. The dark matter mass is induced by the explicit breaking of the dark $SU(2)$ symmetry. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-06 Ian Chaffey

We investigate a simple model where Lepton number is promoted to a local $U(1)_L$ gauge symmetry which is then spontaneously broken, leading to a viable thermal DM candidate and vector-like leptons as a byproduct. The dark matter arises as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro Schwaller , Tim M. P. Tait , Roberto Vega-Morales

The paradigm of portal matter represents a well-motivated extension to models with kinetic mixing/vector portal dark matter. In previous work, we constructed a simple leptonic portal matter model in which the portal matter fields could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 George N. Wojcik , Lisa L. Everett , Shu Tian Eu , Ricardo Ximenes

New dark sectors consisting of exotic fields that couple only very feebly to the Standard Model (SM) have strong theoretical motivation and may be relevant to explaining the abundance of dark matter (DM). An important question for such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-25 Alexandre Carvunis , Navin McGinnis , David E. Morrissey

We propose a framework that links the origin of the Standard Model flavour hierarchies to the generation of asymmetric dark matter via leptogenesis. The key new ingredient is a gauged $SO(3)$ flavour symmetry acting on both the visible and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , David Garcia-Garcia , Javier M. Lizana

Following a previous proposal, lepton number is considered as the result of a spontaneously broken non-Abelian gauge $SU(2)_N$ symmetry. New fermions are added to support this new symmetry, the spontaneous breaking of which allows these new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Ernest Ma

We propose a novel model for lepton flavor and dark matter based on the $SU(2)_D$ gauge symmetry and vector-like leptons in its fundamental representations. We introduce a dark $SU(2)_D$ Higgs doublet and a Higgs bi-doublet for the mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Seong-Sik Kim , Hyun Min Lee , Adriana G. Menkara , Kimiko Yamashita

We explore a novel flavor structure in the interactions of dark matter with the Standard Model. We consider theories in which both the dark matter candidate, and the particles that mediate its interactions with the Standard Model fields,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Elaine C. F. S. Fortes , Can Kilic

I suggest a new particle model to integrate the fermion flavor, the TeV scale Leptogenesis and cold dark matter. The model has a local gauge symmetry $U(1)_{B-L}$ at the TeV scale and a flavor family symmetry SO(3), in addition, it also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-27 Wei-Min Yang

We propose an extension to the standard model incorporating a dark sector with a non-Abelian SU(2) gauge symmetry. The model yields stable dark matter candidates, protected by a residual $Z_3$ symmetry arising after the spontaneous symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Shao-Long Chen , Wen-wen Jiang

We consider extensions of the Standard Model by a hidden sector consisting of a gauge field coupled with a scalar field. Assuming the absence of dimensionful parameters in the tree level potential, radiative symmetry breaking will make the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Mads T. Frandsen , Matti Heikinheimo , Mattias E. Thing , Kimmo Tuominen , Martin Rosenlyst

In this work we study a classically scale invariant extension of the Standard Model that can explain simultaneously dark matter and the baryon asymmetry in the universe. In our set-up we introduce a dark sector, namely a non-Abelian SU(2)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Valentin V. Khoze , Alexis D. Plascencia

We study a gauge-singlet vector-like fermion hidden-sector dark matter model, in which the communication between the dark matter and the visible standard model sector is via the Higgs-portal scalar-Higgs mixing, and also via a hidden-sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-18 Shrihari Gopalakrishna , Tuhin Subhra Mukherjee

Lepton flavor universality violating $B\to K\ell\ell$ and $K^*\ell\ell$ decays tentatively observed by LHCb can be explained by leptoquark exchange. We explore a simple model for the $B$ anomalies with a composite leptoquark from new strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 James M. Cline

We introduce a dark neutrino sector which respects a hidden $U(1)^\prime$ gauge symmetry, subsequently broken by the vacuum expectation value of a dark scalar. The model is a self-consistent realisation of an extended hidden sector that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Peter Ballett , Matheus Hostert , Silvia Pascoli

SU(2) gauge theory with a single fermion in the fundamental representation is a minimal non-Abelian candidate for the dark matter sector, which is presently missing from the standard model. Having only a single flavor provides a natural…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-01 Anthony Francis , Renwick James Hudspith , Randy Lewis , Sean Tulin

As a joint explanation for the dark matter (DM) problem and the muon $(g-2)$ anomaly, we propose a simplified model of lepton-flavoured complex scalar DM with couplings to both the left- and right-handed leptons of the Standard Model (SM).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-25 Harun Acaroğlu , Prateek Agrawal , Monika Blanke

Non-Abelian family symmetries offer a very promising explanation for the flavour structure in the Standard Model and its extensions. We explore the possibility that dark matter consists in fermions that transform under a family symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas , Oliver Fischer

Recent analysis of spontaneous breaking of SU(2) as a continuous gauged flavor symmetry to non-abelian discrete group Q4 as a residual symmetry motivates its consideration as a group for stabilizing dark matter. We determine the region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 I. Lovrekovic

We consider a class of flavored dark matter (DM) theories where dark matter interacts with the Standard Model lepton fields at the renormalizable level. We allow for a general coupling matrix between the dark matter and leptons whose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Mu-Chun Chen , Jinrui Huang , Volodymyr Takhistov