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The CMB observation sets stringent constraints on MeV dark matter (DM) annihilating into charged states/photons in s-wave, and the recent observation of the 21-cm absorption at the cosmic dawn reported by EDGES is also very strict for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-21 Lian-Bao Jia , Xu Liao

Here we briefly review possible indirect effects of dark matter (DM) of the Universe. It includes effects in cosmic rays (CR): first of all, the positron excess at $\sim$ 500 GeV and possible electron-positron excess at 1-1.5 TeV. We tell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 K. M. Belotsky , E. A. Esipova , A. Kh. Kamaletdinov , E. S. Shlepkina , M. L. Solovyov

Dark matter (DM) could couple to particles in the Standard Model (SM) through a light vector mediator. In the limit of small coupling, this portal could be responsible for producing the observed DM abundance through a mechanism known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

We explore the possibility that the high energy neutrino flux observed by terrestrial telescopes originates from dark matter (DM) annihilation. Specifically, we study a minimal, UV-complete $U(1)$ extension of the Standard Model with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Arindam Basu , Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das

We consider scenarios in which dark matter is a Majorana fermion which couples to Standard Model fermions through the exchange of charged mediating particles. The matrix elements for various dark matter annihilation processes are then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Jason Kumar , Christopher Light

Models in which the dark matter is produced at extremely low rates from the annihilation of Standard Model particles in the early Universe allow us to explain the current dark matter relic density while easily evading the traditional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 Joshua Berger , Djuna Croon , Sonia El Hedri , Karsten Jedamzik , Ashley Perko , Devin G. E. Walker

Thermal freeze-out is a prominent example of dark matter (DM) production mechanism in the early Universe that can yield the correct relic density of stable weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). At the other end of the mass scale,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Sebastian Trojanowski , Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck

We propose a minimal UV-complete model for kinematically forbidden Dark Matter (DM) leading to a sub-GeV thermal relic. Our crucial realization is that the two-Higgs-doublet model can provide a light mediator through which the DM can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-29 Johannes Herms , Sudip Jana , Vishnu P. K. , Shaikh Saad

We consider a complex scalar field as SIMP dark matter in models with gauged $Z_3$ discrete symmetry appearing as a remnant of dark local $U(1)$. Dark matter (DM) annihilates dominantly by the 3-to-2 scattering, due to the DM cubic coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-27 Soo-Min Choi , Hyun Min Lee

We show that dark matter annihilation around the time of recombination can lead to growing ionization fraction perturbations, that track the linear collapse of matter over-densities. This amplifies small scale cosmological perturbations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Cora Dvorkin , Kfir Blum , Matias Zaldarriaga

We study the discovery prospects of leptophilic dark matter (DM) in future lepton colliders by considering the light neutrinos to be of Dirac type. Adopting an effective field theory (EFT) approach, we write down dimension six operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Debasish Borah , Nayan Das , Sahabub Jahedi , Bhavya Thacker

The identity of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most captivating topics in particle physics today. The R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), which naturally provides a DM candidate in the form of the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-15 Carlos Ávila , Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Dale Julson , Savanna Starko

In the presence of approximate global symmetries that forbid relevant interactions, strongly coupled light Dark Matter (DM) can appear weakly coupled at small energy and generate a sizable relic abundance. Fundamental principles like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-27 Sebastian Bruggisser , Francesco Riva , Alfredo Urbano

We consider an incarnation of left-right symmetric model with a local gauge symmetry of $SU(3)_C \otimes SU(2)_L \otimes U(1)_L \otimes SU(2)_R \otimes U(1)_R$. Heavy scalars and fermions present in the {\bf 27} of $E_6$ are included in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-01 Sanchari Bhattacharyya , Anindya Datta

Dark matter (DM) candidates, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), can annihilate to Standard Model particles, subsequently producing gamma rays. In this work, we search for DM-induced gamma-ray signals from Coma Berenices…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Stefan Fröse , Dominik Martin Elässer , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Elisa Pueschel

Astrophysical and cosmological observations strongly suggest the existence of Dark Matter\,(DM). Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider\,(LHC) have the potential to probe the particle nature of the DM. In the present work, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Sweta Baradia , Sanchari Bhattacharyya , Anindya Datta , Suchandra Dutta , Suvankar Roy Chowdhury , Subir Sarkar

Dark matter (DM) annihilation in the galactic halo can be enhanced relative to that in the early Universe due to the Breit-Wigner enhancement, if the DM particles annihilate through a narrow resonance. Although the $s$-wave Breit-Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Yu-Chen Ding , Yu-Lin Ku , Chun-Cheng Wei , Yu-Feng Zhou

In this work we study the constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) observation. We consider the contributions from both extragalactic and galactic DM components. For DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wei Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The gamma-ray excess observed from the Galactic Center can be interpreted as dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions with a cross section near that expected for a thermal relic. Although many particle physics models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Asher Berlin , Pierre Gratia , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Light thermal dark matter has emerged as an attractive theoretical possibility and a promising target for discovery at experiments in the near future. Such scenarios generically invoke mediators with very small couplings to the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-24 Gopolang Mohlabeng , Adreja Mondol , Tim M. P. Tait