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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Zahra Tabrizi

Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many studies have examined DM effects on NSs, they often rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Xue-Zhi Liu , Premachand Mahapatra , Chun Huang , Ayush Hazarika , Chiranjeeb Singha , Prasanta Kumar Das

We show that the scattering rate for any dark matter (DM) interaction with electrons in any target is proportional to several measurable material properties, encapsulated by a single master formula. This generalizes the dielectric function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

We investigate the constraints on the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics featuring a scalar dark matter candidate, using data from recent and future gamma-ray observatories. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Lucca Radicce Justino , Clarissa Siqueira , Aion Viana

Strongly-interacting dark matter can be accumulated in large quantities inside the Earth, and for dark matter particles in a few GeV mass range, it can exist in large quantities near the Earth's surface. We investigate the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Yohei Ema , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray

Dark matter interacting predominantly with leptons instead of nuclear matter has received a lot of interest recently. In this talk, we investigate the signals expected from such 'leptophilic Dark Matter' in direct detection experiments and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-08 Joachim Kopp , Viviana Niro , Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan

Direct detection experiments search for the interactions of Dark Matter (DM) particles with nuclei in terrestrial detectors. But if these interactions are sufficiently strong, DM particles may scatter in the Earth, affecting their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-13 Bradley J. Kavanagh , Riccardo Catena , Chris Kouvaris

In $\rm\Lambda$CDM cosmology, Dark Matter (DM) and neutrinos are assumed to be non-interacting. However, it is possible to have scenarios, where DM-neutrino interaction may be present, leading to scattering of DM with neutrinos and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Arnab Paul , Arindam Chatterjee , Anish Ghoshal , Supratik Pal

We present new observational constraints on the elastic scattering of dark matter with electrons for dark matter masses between 10 keV and 1 TeV. We consider scenarios in which the momentum-transfer cross section has a power-law dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 David Nguyen , Dimple Sarnaaik , Kimberly K. Boddy , Ethan O. Nadler , Vera Gluscevic

We study the effective interactions of the fermionic, scalar and vector dark matter (DM) with leptons and neutral electroweak gauge Bosons induced by the higher dimensional effective twist-2 tensor operators. We constrain these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Hrishabh Bharadwaj , Sukanta Dutta

The recent WMAP data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat Universe. Thus the direct dark matter search, consisting of detecting the recoiling nucleus, is central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 J. D. Vergados , Amand Faessler

We explore a scenario where Dark Matter (DM) couples to the Standard Model mainly via a scalar mediator ${\cal S}$ that is odd under a $Z_2$ symmetry, leading to interesting collider signatures. In fact, if linear interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Florian Goertz , Karla Tame-Narvaez , Valentin Tenorth

Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments like DUNE and T2HK are multi-purpose observatories, with a rich physics program beyond oscillation measurements. A special role is played by their near detector facilities, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-11 Moritz Breitbach , Luca Buonocore , Claudia Frugiuele , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht

Non-relativistic effective field theories (NREFTs) play a crucial role in various areas of physics, from cold atom experiments to cosmology. In this paper, we present a systematic framework for deriving NREFTs from relativistic theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 H. S. Modirzadeh , R. Moti , M. H. Namjoo

Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Philipp Grothaus , Malcolm Fairbairn , Jocelyn Monroe

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Giorgio Arcadi , Juan Carlos Criado , Abdelhak Djouadi

Compact stellar objects are promising cosmic laboratories to test the nature of dark matter (DM). DM captured by the strong gravitational field of these stellar remnants transfers kinetic energy to the star during the collision. This can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sandra Robles

In this work we numerically re-examine the loop-induced WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section for the simplified dark matter models and the constraint set by the latest direct detection experiment. We consider a fermion, scalar or vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-26 Tong Li

Due to the dense environment, neutron stars (NSs) can serve as an ideal laboratory for studying the interactions between dark matter (DM) and ordinary matter. In the process of DM capture, deep inelastic scattering may dominate over elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Meiwen Yang

The ionization signal provide an important avenue of detecting light dark matter. In this work, we consider the sub-GeV inelastic dark matter and use the non-relativistic effective field theory (NR-EFT) to derive the constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Jiwei Li , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu