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The Higgs doublet can mediate a long-range interaction between multi-TeV particles coupled to the Weak interactions of the Standard Model, while its emission can lead to very rapid bound-state formation processes and bound-to-bound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-03 Ruben Oncala , Kalliopi Petraki

We study a minimal model with an imposed $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry incorporating two singlet fermions and a singlet scalar which communicate with the SM particles through a scalar-Higgs portal. We probe regions in the parameter space where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Karim Ghorbani

Cold dark matter may be made of superweakly-interacting massive particles, superWIMPs, that naturally inherit the desired relic density from late decays of metastable WIMPs. Well-motivated examples are weak-scale gravitinos in supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan L. Feng , Arvind Rajaraman , Fumihiro Takayama

As recently proposed, a non-vanishing topological angle may play a central role in QCD-like theories of dark matter (DM). In this work, we introduce a dark photon portal to the Standard Model in order to establish thermal equilibrium in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Camilo García-Cely , Giacomo Landini , Luca Marsili , Óscar Zapata

Dark matter direct and indirect detection signals depend crucially on the dark matter distribution. While the formation of large scale structure is independent of the nature of the cold dark matter (CDM), the fate of inhomogeneities on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Anne M. Green , Stefan Hofmann , Dominik J. Schwarz

If dark matter (DM) simply consists in a scalar particle interacting dominantly with the Higgs boson, the ratio of its annihilation cross section ---which is relevant both for the relic abundance and indirect detection--- and its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sarah Andreas , Chiara Arina , Thomas Hambye , Fu-Sin Ling , Michel H. G. Tytgat

The cold dark matter (CDM) candidate with weakly interacting massive particles can successfully explain the observed dark matter relic density in cosmic scale and the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, a number of observations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Chung Kao , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Gwo-Guang Wong

The scalar dark matter candidate in a prototypical theory space little Higgs model is investigated. We review all details of the model pertinent to dark matter. We perform a thermal relic density calculation including couplings to the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Andreas Birkedal-Hansen , Jay G. Wacker

The Cold Dark Matter paradigm successfully explains many phenomena on scales larger than galaxies, but seems to predict galaxy halos which are more centrally concentrated and have a lumpier substructure than observed. Endowing cosmic dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

One of the most puzzling problems of modern physics is the identification of the nature a non-relativistic matter component present in the universe, contributing to more than 25$\%$ of the total energy budget, known as Dark Matter. Weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-18 Mathias Pierre

Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Stephane Colombi , Scott Dodelson , Lawrence M. Widrow

The out-of-equilibrium production of dark matter (DM) from standard model (SM) species in the early universe (freeze-in mechanism) is expected in many scenarios in which very heavy beyond the SM fields act as mediators. In this conference,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-28 Maíra Dutra

Warm dark matter (WDM) may resolve the possible conflict between observed galaxy halos and the halos produced in cold dark matter (CDM) simulations. Here we present an extension of MSSM to include WDM by adding a gauge singlet fermion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 John McDonald , Narendra Sahu

We consider thermal production mechanisms of self-interacting dark matter in models with gauged $Z_3$ symmetry. A complex scalar dark matter is stabilized by the $Z_3$, that is the remnant of a local dark $U(1)_d$. Light dark matter with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Soo-Min Choi , Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee

We propose a mechanism of elementary thermal dark matter with mass up to $10^{14}$ GeV, within a standard cosmological history, whose relic abundance is determined solely by its interactions with the Standard Model, without violating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-13 Hyungjin Kim , Eric Kuflik

The absence of any confirmative signals from extensive DM searching motivates us to go beyond the conventional WIMPs scenario. The feebly interacting massive particles (FIMPs) paradigm provides a good alternative which, despite of its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Shao-Long Chen , Zhaofeng Kang

The existence of a light mediator is beneficial to some phenomena in astroparticle physics, such as the core-cusp problem and diversity problem. It can decouple from Standard Model to avoid direct detection constraints, generally realized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Bin Zhu , Murat Abdughani

We investigate the temperature-dependent production of feebly interacting massive dark matter particle (FIMP DM) within a $Z_2$ model, incorporating two $Z_2$-odd scalar fields. In specific parameter regions, three distinct mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-15 Shuocheng Xu , Ruiyu Zhou , Wei Cheng , Xuewen Liu

The WIMP dark matter (DM) hypothesis now is in an awkward position, owing to the stronger and stronger exclusion from DM direct detection. In this article we design a mechanism to evade this constraint.The idea is simple. DM has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Guo , Zhaofeng Kang , Peng Zhang

We investigate dark matter (DM) production in an early matter dominated era where a heavy long-lived particle decays to radiation and DM. In addition to DM annihilation into and thermal DM production from radiation, we include direct DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-15 Manuel Drees , Fazlollah Hajkarim