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We consider the radiative generation of neutrino mass through the interactions of neutrinos with MeV dark matter. We construct a realistic renormalizable model with one scalar doublet and one complex singlet together with three light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-15 Abdesslam Arhrib , Céline Bœhm , Ernest Ma , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

Warm dark matter (WDM) means DM particles with mass m in the keV scale. For large scales, (structures beyond ~ 100 kpc) WDM and CDM yield identical results which agree with observations. For intermediate scales, WDM gives the correct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-12 H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

The discrepancy between dynamical mass measures of objects such as galaxies and the observed distribution of luminous matter in the universe is typically explained by invoking an unseen ``dark matter'' component. Dark matter must…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 William H. Kinney , Martina Brisudova

We propose a new method to detect sub-GeV dark matter, through their scatterings from free leptons and the resulting kinematic shifts. Specially, such an experiment can detect dark matter interacting solely with muons. The experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Alim Ruzi , Chen Zhou , Xiaohu Sun , Dayong Wang , Siguang Wang , Yong Ban , Yajun Mao , Qite Li , Qiang Li

Assuming existence of (very) heavy fourth generation of quarks and antiquarks we argue that antibaryon composed of the three heavy antiquarks can be light, stable and invisible, hence a good candidate for the Dark matter particle. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-26 D. Gorbunov , P. Pakhlov

An extension of the Standard Model by three right-handed neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale (the $\nu$MSM) can explain simultaneously dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe, being consistent with the data on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Dark Matter (DM) models providing possible alternative solutions to the small- scale crisis of standard cosmology are nowadays of growing interest. We consider DM interacting with light hidden fermions via well motivated fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Tobias Binder , Laura Covi , Ayuki Kamada , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

A phenomenological neutrino mass matrix is proposed to explain the solar and atmospheric neutrino deficits and to present the neutrino as a candidate of hot dark matter in the $3\nu_L+3\nu_R$ framework. The realization of mixing angles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daijiro Suematsu

In this talk we review existing cosmological and astrophysical bounds on light (with the mass in keV - MeV range) and super-weakly interacting dark matter candidates. A particular attention is paid to the sterile neutrino DM candidate.

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-17 Alexey Boyarsky , Oleg Ruchayskiy

A recent proposal suggests that experimental discrepancies on the lifetime of neutrons can be resolved if neutrons decay to dark matter. At the same time it has been demonstrated that such a decay mode would soften the nuclear equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Benjamin Grinstein , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

Dark matter might be in the form of a dark plasma in the Milky Way halo. Specifically, we consider here a hidden sector consisting of a light `dark electron' and a much heavier `dark proton', each charged under an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Lei Zu , R. Foot , Yi-Zhong Fan , Lei Feng

We propose new solutions to accommodate both the MiniBooNE electron-like and MicroBooNE photon low-energy excesses, based on interactions involving light dark matter and/or neutrinos. The novelty of our proposal lies in the utilization of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Doojin Kim , Adrian Thompson , Richard G. Van de Water

Typically, the interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter is assumed to be very small. Nevertheless, in this article, I show that the effective resonant absorption of dark photon dark matter in the atmosphere is definitely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Man Ho Chan

Other nongravitational heating processes are needed to resolve the disagreement between the absence of cool gas components in the centers of galaxy clusters revealed recently by Chandra and XMM observations and the expectations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bo Qin , Xiang-Ping Wu

Dark matter is a vital component of the current best model of our universe, $\Lambda$CDM. There are leading candidates for what the dark matter could be (e.g. weakly-interacting massive particles, or axions), but no compelling observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-06 David M. Jacobs , Glenn D. Starkman , Bryan W. Lynn

The small-scale structure problems of the universe can be solved by self-interacting dark matter that becomes strongly interacting at low energies. A particularly predictive model is resonant short-range self-interactions, with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-14 Eric Braaten , Daekyoung Kang , Ranjan Laha

We show that a scalar and a fermion charged under a global U(1) symmetry can not only explain the existence and abundance of dark matter (DM) and dark radiation (DR), but also imbue DM with improved scattering properties at galactic scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Xiaoyong Chu , Basudeb Dasgupta

The tau neutrino with a mass of about 10 MeV can be the ``late decaying particle'' in the cold dark matter scenario for the formation of structure in the Universe. We show how this may be realized specifically in the recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Hisashi Kikuchi , Ernest Ma

The density budget of the Universe is reviewed, and then specific particle candidates for non-bayonic dark matter are introduced, with emphasis on the relevance of cosmic-ray physics. The sizes of the neutrino masses indicated by recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Ellis

The existence of cosmological dark matter is in the bedrock of the modern cosmology. The dark matter is assumed to be nonbaryonic and to consist of new stable particles. However if composite dark matter contains stable electrically charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Maxim Yu. Khlopov