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The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

We introduce DarkBit, an advanced software code for computing dark matter constraints on various extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, comprising both new native code and interfaces to external packages. This release…

This white paper describes the basic idea for indirect dark matter searches using antideuterons. Low energy antideuterons produced by dark matter annihilations/decays provide an attractive dark matter signature, due to the low astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-06 C. Hailey , T. Aramaki , P. von Doetinchem , R. A. Ong

One of the most promising strategies to identify the nature of dark matter consists in the search for new particles at accelerators and with so-called direct detection experiments. Working within the framework of simplified models, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-04 Gianfranco Bertone , Nassim Bozorgnia , Jong Soo Kim , Sebastian Liem , Christopher McCabe , Sydney Otten , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Directional detection is a promising direct Dark Matter (DM) search strategy. The angular distribution of the nuclear recoil tracks from WIMP events should present an anisotropy in galactic coordinates. This strategy requires both a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-19 Q. Riffard , J. Billard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , O. Guillaudin , J. Lamblin , F. Mayet , J. -F. Muraz , J. -P. Richer , D. Santos , L. Lebreton , D. Maire , J. Busto , J. Brunner , D. Fouchez

Dark matter direct detection experiments are designed to look for the scattering of dark matter particles that are assumed to move with virial velocities $\sim 10^{-3}$. At these velocities, the energy deposition in the detector is large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-12 Julien Billard , Matt Pyle , Surjeet Rajendran , Harikrishnan Ramani

Precision measurements at the LHC often require analyzing high-dimensional event data for subtle kinematic signatures, which is challenging for established analysis methods. Recently, a powerful family of multivariate inference techniques…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Johann Brehmer , Felix Kling , Irina Espejo , Kyle Cranmer

Directional detection can provide unambiguous observation of Dark Matter interactions even in presence of insidious backgrounds. The DM-TPC collaboration is developing a detector with the goal of measuring the direction and sense of nuclear…

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model, wherein the dark matter is treated as a pressureless perfect fluid, provides a good fit to galactic and cosmological data. With the advent of precision cosmology, it should be asked whether this simplest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-12 Michael Kopp , Constantinos Skordis , Dan B. Thomas

Directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. However, carrying out such a strategy requires both a precise measurement of the energy down to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-20 C. Grignon , J. Billard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , J. P. Richer , D. Santos , E. Ferrer , I. Giomataris , J. P. Mols

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

We review the current status of accelerator, direct and indirect Dark Matter (DM) searches, focusing on the complementarity of different techniques and on the prospects for discovery. After taking a census of present and upcoming DM-related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-31 Gianfranco Bertone

The three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of nuclear recoils is of interest for directional detection of fast neutrons and for direction-sensitive searches for weakly interacting massive particles(WIMPs), which may constitute the Dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 S. E. Vahsen , M. T. Hedges , I. Jaegle , S. J. Ross , I. S. Seong , T. N. Thorpe , J. Yamaoka , J. A. Kadyk , M. Garcia-Sciveres

Various issues related to the direct detection of supersymmetric dark matter are reviewed. Such are: 1) Construction of supersymmetric models with a number of parameters, which are constrained from the data at low energies as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nucleus, producing nuclear recoils. These events will be discerned by their light to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-26 Christian Regenfus

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling candidate for cosmological dark matter. If ULDM interacts with ordinary matter, it can induce measurable, characteristic signals in pulsar-timing data because it causes the orbits of pulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Pavel Kůs , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

In this talk, we discuss the physics modelling of particle spectra arising from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. In the context of the indirect searches of DM, the final state products will, in general, undergo a set of complicated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 Simone Amoroso , Sascha Caron , Adil Jueid , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Peter Skands

Anisotropic target materials are promising candidates for dark matter direct detection experiments, providing a directional sensitivity that can be used to distinguish a dark matter (DM) signal from the various Standard Model backgrounds.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Benjamin Lillard , Aria Radick

Dark matter that is dissipative may cool sufficiently to form compact objects, including black holes. Determining the abundance and mass spectrum of those objects requires an accurate model of the chemistry relevant for the cooling of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Michael Ryan , Sarah Shandera , James Gurian , Donghui Jeong