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We address the recent anomalies in semi-leptonic $B$-meson decays using a model of fermion masses based on the $U(2)$ flavor symmetry. The new contributions to $b \to s \ell \ell$ transitions arise due to a tree-level exchange of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Adam Falkowski , Marco Nardecchia , Robert Ziegler

We propose a vector dark matter model from a hidden SU(2)_D gauge symmetry at TeV scale. A scalar septuplet is introduced to break the SU(2)_D symmetry spontaneously. The septuplet also play the role of a portal between the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 Zhao Zhang , Chengfeng Cai , Hong-Hao Zhang

We present a comprehensive framework for the study of flavored dark matter models, combining relic density calculations with direct and indirect detection limits, collider constraints, and a global analysis of flavor observables based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Benedetta Belfatto , Monika Blanke , Jan Heisig , Michael Krämer , Lena Rathmann , Felix Wilsch

The dynamics and detection possibility of a pseudo-FIMP (pFIMP) dark matter (DM) in the presence of a thermal DM have been studied in different contexts. The pFIMP phenomenology largely depends on the WIMP-like partner DM, as pFIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jayita Lahiri , Dipankar Pradhan , Abhik Sarkar

A massive real scalar dark matter particle $S$ can couple to Standard Model leptons or quarks through a vector-like fermionic mediator $\psi$, a scenario known as the Vector-like portal. Due to helicity suppression of the annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-07 Stefano Colucci , Federica Giacchino , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele

Dark matter from a hidden sector with SU($N$) gauge symmetry can have a nonabelian kinetic mixing portal with the standard model. The dark photon becomes massive in the confining phase without the need for spontaneous symmetry breaking.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Ruike Cao , James M. Cline , Karishma Moorthy , Tianzhuo Xiao

A minimal extension of the left-right symmetric model for neutrino masses that includes a vector-like singlet fermion dark matter (DM) is presented with the DM connected to the visible sector via a gauged U(1) portal. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 M. J. Neves , J. A. Helaÿel-Neto , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Nobuchika Okada

The dark sector offers a compelling theoretical framework for addressing the nature of dark matter while potentially solving other fundamental problems in physics. This review focuses on light dark flavored sector models, which are those…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 Jorge Martin Camalich , Robert Ziegler

We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model that can account for the dark matter and explain the existence of neutrino masses. The model includes a vector-like doublet of SU(2), a singlet fermion, and two scalar singlets, all of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Michael Klasen , David R. Lamprea , Carlos E. Yaguna

In flavored dark matter models, dark matter can scatter off of nuclei through Higgs and photon exchange, both of which can arise from renormalizable interactions and individually lead to strong constraints from direct detection. While these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Ali Hamze , Can Kilic , Jason Koeller , Cynthia Trendafilova , Jiang-Hao Yu

We propose a scenario of dark sector described by a hidden $SU(2)$ gauge symmetry which is broken by a vacuum expectation value(VEV) of a scalar multiplet. We discuss a general mass relation among $SU(2)$ gauge bosons after spontaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada , Seokhoon Yun

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

We consider models of accidental dark matter, namely models in which the dark matter is a composite state that is stable thanks to an accidental symmetry of the theory. The fundamental constituents are vectorlike fermions, taken to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Stefano Palmisano , Francesco Rescigno , Federica Troni

The Standard Model fermion sector is enlarged by either one light singlet vector-like down-type quark or one light vector-like lepton doublet, which might be accommodated within a five-dimensional representation of SU(5). At low energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Ilja Dorsner , Svjetlana Fajfer , Ivana Mustac

"Portal" models that connect the Standard Model to a Dark Sector allow for a wide variety of scenarios beyond the simplest WIMP models. Kinetic mixing of gauge fields in particular has allowed a broad range of new ideas. However, the models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Martin Schmaltz , Neal Weiner

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

We propose a model of dark sector described by gauged hidden $U(1)_H$ symmetry in which neutrino masses are generated at one-loop level and axion is induced by assigning Peccei-Quinn charge to fermions in dark sector relevantly. Then our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-09 Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada , Seokhoon Yun

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 study a model with a vector dark matter (DM) candidate interacting with the SM charged leptons through a scalar portal. The dark matter candidate acquires mass when the complex scalar breaks an abelian gauge symmetry spontaneously. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Karim Ghorbani

A possible connection between the cosmological baryon asymmetry, dark matter and vector-like fermions is investigated. In this scenario an asymmetry generated through baryogenesis or leptogenesis (in the vector-like matter sector) connects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-22 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Mark B. Wise