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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

The idea that dark-matter interactions with Standard-Model particles may be mediated by new bosons with masses in the MeV-to-GeV range took off several years ago. Constraints on such models were soon calculated based on older measurements.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-25 Abner Soffer

The evidence for dark matter signals a new class of particles at the TeV scale, which may manifest themselves indirectly through loop effects. In a simple model we show that these loop effects may be responsible for the enhanced muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Hambye , Kristjan Kannike , Ernest Ma , Martti Raidal

In the theory of electroweak interactions, there is no prohibition on the existence of particles with a mass other than that of an electron, muon and tauon. The task is to search for a new particle in the mass range of 2-100 MeV. The search…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-12 M. H. Anikina , V. A. Nikitin , V. C. Rikhvitsky

The nature of dark matter is one of the open problems of the Standard Model of particle physics. Despite the great experimental efforts, we have not yet found a positive signal of its interactions with ordinary matter. One possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 M. Blennow , E. Fernández-Martínez , A. Olivares-Del Campo , S. Pascoli , S. Rosauro-Alcaraz , A. V. Titov

Kinetic heating of old cold neutron stars, via the scattering of dark matter with matter in the star, provides a promising way to probe the nature of dark matter interactions. We consider a dark matter candidate that is a Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Avirup Ghosh

With no concrete evidence for non-gravitational interactions of dark matter to date, it is natural to wonder whether dark matter couples predominantly to the Standard Model (SM)'s neutrinos. Neutrino interactions (and the possible existence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Jyotismita Adhikary , Kevin J. Kelly , Felix Kling , Sebastian Trojanowski

We present a simple model of dark matter that can address astrophysical and cosmological puzzles across a wide range of scales. The model is an application of the Secretly Asymmetric Dark Matter mechanism, where several flavors of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Christopher Dessert , Can Kilic , Cynthia Trendafilova , Yuhsin Tsai

We consider the cosmology and phenomenology of a dark photon portal to a simple dark sector consisting of a single, light, fermionic dark matter particle species with mass in the MeV range. We entertain three possible kinetic mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Federico Compagnin , Stefano Profumo , Nicolao Fornengo

The physics of the supernova may provide a clue of the cosmological dark matter. In the absence of new physics, the supernova calculations do not explain the observed velocities of pulsars. However, if there exists a singlet fermion with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Kusenko

An appealing framework for dark matter is provided by light hidden sectors, below the electroweak scale, feebly coupled to the Standard Model via light mediators. We consider a minimal, predictive model where both the dark matter and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Ana Luisa Foguel , Renata Zukanovich Funchal , Michele Frigerio

Dark matter with mass in the crossover range between wave dark matter and particle dark matter, around $(10^{-3},\, 10^3)\,$eV, remains relatively unexplored by terrestrial experiments. In this mass regime, dark matter scatters coherently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Pengshun Luo , Shigeki Matsumoto , Jie Sheng , Chuan-Yang Xing , Lin Zhu , Zhi-Jie Zhuge

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe can consist of new stable charged leptons and quarks, if they are hidden in elusive "dark atoms" of composite dark matter. Such possibility can be compatible with the severe constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Maxim Yu. Khlopov

We study magnetic dipole moments of right-handed neutrinos in a keV neutrino dark matter model. This model is a simple extension of the standard model with only right-handed neutrinos and a pair of charged particles added. One of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Chao-Qiang Geng , Ryo Takahashi

The MUonE experiment aims to extract the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from a precise measurement of the muon-electron differential scattering cross section. We show that MUonE can also discover thermal relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-01 Gordan Krnjaic , Duncan Rocha , Isaac R. Wang

Asymmetric dark matter is a well-motivated approach to explain the apparent coincidence between the relic densities of visible and dark matter, $\Omega_D \simeq 5.4\Omega_b$. A complete explanation requires two components, a relation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Peter Cox , Rafael E. Pérez , Raymond R. Volkas

We provide a list of particle physics models at the TeV-scale that are compatible with neutrino masses and dark matter. In these models, the Standard Model particle content is extended with a small number (\leq 4) of scalar and fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Diego Restrepo , Oscar Zapata , Carlos Yaguna

We show that in a class of universal extra dimension models (UED), which solves both the neutrino mass and proton decay problem, an admixture of KK photon and KK right handed neutrinos can provide the required amount of cold dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken Hsieh , R. N. Mohapatra , Salah Nasri

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with a pair of W bosons and large missing transverse momentum. Candidate events are selected by requiring one or two leptons ($\ell =$ electrons or muons). The analysis is based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-27 CMS Collaboration

A minimal extension of the standard model to naturally generate small neutrino masses and provide a dark matter candidate is proposed. The dark matter particle is part of a new scalar doublet field that plays a crucial role in radiatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-03 Michael Gustafsson , Jose Miguel No , Maximiliano A. Rivera