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We reinterpret the results of the direct searches for dark matter in terms of composite dark matter, i.e. dark matter particles that form neutral bound states, generically called dark atoms, either with ordinary particles, or with other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Quentin Wallemacq

The details of what constitutes the majority of the mass that makes up dark matter in the Universe remains one of the prime puzzles of cosmology and particle physics today - eighty years after the first observational indications. Today, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Funk

Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter particles with nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair production at a hadron collider, and with the addition of initial state radiation this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

We propose a new class of bosonic dark matter (DM) detectors based on resonant absorption onto a gas of small polyatomic molecules. Bosonic DM acts on the molecules as a narrow-band perturbation, like an intense but weakly coupled laser.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-10 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Ken Van Tilburg

A fraction of the dark matter may consist of a particle species that interacts much more strongly with the Standard Model than a typical weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) of similar mass. Such a strongly interacting dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-12 David McKeen , Marianne Moore , David E. Morrissey , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani

Dark matter (DM) particles can interact with particles of the standard model. Although there are a number of constraints derived from direct and indirect detection experiments, the evolution of astrophysical objects could offer a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Moritz S. Fischer , Klaus Dolag , Mathias Garny , Vera Gluscevic , Frederick Groth , Ethan O. Nadler

We seek to explain both the seeming observation of dark matter by the seasonal variation of the DAMA-LIBRA data and the observation of "electron recoil" events at Xenon1T in which the liquid Xe scintillator was excited by electrons - in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-11 C. D. Froggatt , H. B. Nielsen

Astronomical observations from small galaxies to the largest scales in the universe can be consistently explained by the simple idea of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is however still unknown. Empirically it cannot be any of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-11-26 Paolo Gondolo

The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics today. Dark matter direct detection experiments look for nuclear recoil signals from DM-nucleus elastic scattering, which can be used to characterise DM. Nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Raghda Abdel Khaleq , Madeleine J. Zurowski

While, to ensure successful cosmology, dark matter (DM) must kinematically decouple from the standard model plasma very early in the history of the Universe, it can remain coupled to a bath of "dark radiation" until a relatively late epoch.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Kris Sigurdson

We present a new class of interacting dark sector models that can address the Hubble tension. Interacting dark radiation (DR) has previously been put forward as a solution to the problem, but this proposal is disfavored by the high-$\ell$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Zackaria Chacko , Ina Flood , Can Kilic , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Taewook Youn

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

We revisit the signatures from collisions of cosmic-rays on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way. In addition to the upscattered DM component that can be probed by existing DM and neutrino experiments widely discussed, we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-09 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu , Qiang Yuan

The paper contains description of the main properties of the galactic dark matter (DM) particles, available approaches for detection of DM, main features of direct DM detection, ways to estimate prospects for the DM detection, the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Vadim A. Bednyakov

Dark matter (DM) refers to a new type of matter that may explain observed rotation curves of galaxies and the composite structure of the Universe. It may couple to the Standard Model particles via portals, which include the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Vindhyawasini Prasad

We point out that a non-relativistic $\sim 2 $ GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with visible matter through higher dimensional Rayleigh operators could explain the excess of "electron recoil" events recently observed by the Xenon1T…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Gil Paz , Alexey A. Petrov , Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

The ArDM project aims at operating a large noble liquid detector to search for direct evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) as Dark Matter in the universe. Background sources relevant to ton-scale liquid and gaseous argon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-09 L. Kaufmann , A. Rubbia

Exotic dark matter together with dark energy or cosmological constant seem to dominate in the Universe. An even higher density of such matter seems to be gravitationally trapped in our Galaxy. The nature of dark matter can be unveiled only,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 J. D. Vergados

Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most critical questions to be understood and answered in fundamental physics today. Plenty of astronomical and cosmological observations have already pinned down that DM exists in the Universe, the Milky Way,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Junhui Liao , Yuanning Gao , Zhuo Liang , Zebang Ouyang , Zhaohua Peng , Lifeng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Jian Zheng , Jiangfeng Zhou