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We study inelastic dark matter produced via freeze-in through a light mediator with a mass splitting below the electron-positron threshold. In this regime, the heavier dark matter state is naturally long-lived compared to the age of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Gordan Krnjaic , David McKeen , Riku Mizuta , Gopolang Mohlabeng , David E. Morrissey , Douglas Tuckler

In this Letter we explore the direct detection of the dark matter in the universe, assuming the dark matter particles are degenerate in mass with new colored particles below TeV scale. The scenario with such a mass spectrum is difficult to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-22 Junji Hisano , Koji Ishiwata , Natsumi Nagata

The observation of new physics events with large missing transverse energy at the LHC would potentially serve as evidence for the direct production of dark matter. A crucial step toward verifying such evidence is the measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-02 Andre de Gouvea , Andrew C. Kobach

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

Freeze-in dark matter (DM) mediated by a light ($\ll$ keV) weakly-coupled dark-photon is an important benchmark for the emerging low-mass direct detection program. Since this is one of the only predictive, detectable freeze-in models, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-26 Gordan Krnjaic

It is shown that LHC data can allow one to decode the mechanism by which dark matter is generated in the early universe in supersymmetric theories. We focus on two of the major mechanisms for such generation of dark matter which are known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Feldman , Zuowei Liu , Pran Nath

We consider a broad class of supersymmetric theories in which dark matter (DM) is the lightest superpartner (LSP) of a hidden sector that couples very weakly to visible sector fields. Portal interactions connecting visible and hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-11 Clifford Cheung , Gilly Elor , Lawrence J. Hall , Piyush Kumar

The LHC may produce light, weakly-interacting particles that decay to dark matter, creating an intense and highly collimated beam of dark matter particles in the far-forward direction. We investigate the prospects for detecting this dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Brian Batell , Jonathan L. Feng , Ahmed Ismail , Felix Kling , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Sebastian Trojanowski

We study the Singlet-Doublet dark matter model in the regime of feeble couplings, where the dark matter abundance is obtained via the freeze-in mechanism. As a consequence of the small couplings, the heavier particles in the model are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-13 Lorenzo Calibbi , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Steven Lowette , Alberto Mariotti

We propose a unified theory of dark matter (DM) genesis and baryogenesis. It explains the observed link between the DM density and the baryon density, and is fully testable by a combination of collider experiments and precision tests. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-04 Lawrence J. Hall , John March-Russell , Stephen M. West

It is known that single-field freeze-in dark matter barely leaves footprints in dark matter direct detection and collider experiments. This situation can be altered in two-field context. In this work we propose a two-field freeze-in dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-18 Xinyue Yin , Shuai Xu , Sibo Zheng

We analyse new signals of Dark Matter (DM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where only one doublet acquires a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), preserving a parity $Z_2$. The other two doublets are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Cordero , J. Hernandez-Sanchez , V. Keus , S. F. King , S. Moretti , D. Rojas , D. Sokolowska

If the dark matter is produced in the early universe prior to Big Bang nucleosynthesis, a modified cosmological history can drastically affect the abundance of relic dark matter particles. Here, we assume that an additional species to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-26 Francesco D'Eramo , Nicolas Fernandez , Stefano Profumo

Quantifying the imprints of freeze-in dark matter (DM) on cosmological structures requires knowledge of its phase-space distribution. We investigate how variations in the cosmological history before nucleosynthesis, the "weather" of that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Tommaso Sassi

We explore a variant on the MT2 kinematic variable which enables dark matter mass measurements for simple, one stage, cascade decays. This will prove useful for constraining a subset of supersymmetric processes, or a class of leptophilic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-01 Timothy Cohen , Eric Kuflik , Kathryn M. Zurek

We study a novel dark matter production mechanism based on the freeze-in through semi-production, i.e. the inverse semi-annihilation processes. A peculiar feature of this scenario is that the production rate is suppressed by a small initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Andrzej Hryczuk , Maxim Laletin

While the paradigm of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) has guided our search strategies for dark matter in the past decades, their null-results have stimulated growing interest in alternative explanations pointing towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-22 Jan Heisig

We suggest trying to count the number of invisible particles produced in missing energy events at the LHC, arguing that multiple production of such particles provides evidence that they constitute stable Dark Matter and that counting them…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Gian Francesco Giudice , Ben Gripaios , Rakhi Mahbubani

In the present paper, it is assumed that there exist two species of dark matter: a heavy dark matter particle (HDM) with the mass of O(TeV) which is generated in early universe and a lighter dark matter particle (LDM) which is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Ye Xu

We discuss the interplay between LHC signatures and the mechanism by which dark matter is generated in the early universe in supersymmetric theories. The LHC signatures of two of the major mechanisms for such generation of dark matter which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Zuowei Liu