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Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter density of the Universe, yet its true nature remains uncertain. Among dark matter theories, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a prominent candidate for dark matter because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Micael Andrade , Aion Viana

Results are reported from a search for a class of composite dark matter models with feeble, long-range interactions with normal matter. We search for impulses arising from passing dark matter particles by monitoring the mechanical motion of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-11-03 Fernando Monteiro , Gadi Afek , Daniel Carney , Gordan Krnjaic , Jiaxiang Wang , David C. Moore

In this Report we discuss the four complementary searches for the identity of dark matter: direct detection experiments that look for dark matter interacting in the lab, indirect detection experiments that connect lab signals to dark matter…

Massive photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model with a hidden sector where dark matter is secluded. They are vector bosons mediating the interaction between dark matter particles and can be produced in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-07 Viviana Scherini

Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter particles with nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair production at a hadron collider, and with the addition of initial state radiation this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Dark matter constitutes $26\%$ of the total energy in our universe, but its nature remains elusive. Among the assortment of viable dark matter candidates, particles and fields with masses lighter than $40 \mathrm{eV}$, called ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-02 Hong-Yi Zhang

Dark sector models present a rich phenomenology that requires high-intensity beams and precision detectors for thorough exploration. The NA62 experiment has already published several constraints on dark sector models, leveraging proton beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 F. Arias-Aragón , L. Darmé , R. Gargiulo , G. Grilli di Cortona , V. Kozhuharov , E. Nardi , M. Raggi , T. Spadaro , P. Valente

We propose a new search channel for boosted dark matter (BDM) signals coming from the present universe, which are distinct from simple neutrino signals including those coming from the decay or pair-annihilation of dark matter. The signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most critical questions to be understood and answered in fundamental physics today. Plenty of astronomical and cosmological observations have already pinned down that DM exists in the Universe, the Milky Way,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Junhui Liao , Yuanning Gao , Zhuo Liang , Zebang Ouyang , Zhaohua Peng , Lifeng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Jian Zheng , Jiangfeng Zhou

In the cosmological paradigm, cold dark matter (DM) dominates the mass content of the Universe and is present at every scale. Candidates for DM include many extensions of the standard model, such as weakly interacting massive particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Zitzer

About $26\%$ of the matter in our Universe is made up of Dark Matter (DM), which interacts with Standard Model (SM) matter only through gravitational or weak interactions. Many proposals have been made by scientists about the possible…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 Kalpana Bora

We investigate a dark sector containing a pair of light non-degenerate scalar particles, with masses in the MeV-GeV range, coupled to the visible sector through heavier mediators. The heaviest dark state is long-lived, and its decays offer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Enrico Bertuzzo , Marco Taoso

Dark sectors, consisting of new, light, weakly-coupled particles that do not interact with the known strong, weak, or electromagnetic forces, are a particularly compelling possibility for new physics. Nature may contain numerous dark…

It is well known that dark matter density measurements, indirect and direct detection experiments, importantly complement the LHC in setting strong constraints on new physics scenarios. Yet, dark matter searches are subject to limitations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 G. Robbins , F. Mahmoudi , A. Arbey , M. Boudaud

Despite the great success of the Standard Model of particle physics the nature of Dark Matter still remains unclear. Recently, the idea of the existence of a hidden sector coupling only weakly with the ordinary matter was revitalized and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-17 V. Kozhuharov , M. Raggi , P. Valente

In a dedicated run where protons from the Fermilab Booster were delivered directly to the steel beam dump of the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB), the MiniBooNE detector was used to search for the production of sub-GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-29 Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo

We consider a broad class of supersymmetric theories in which dark matter (DM) is the lightest superpartner (LSP) of a hidden sector that couples very weakly to visible sector fields. Portal interactions connecting visible and hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-11 Clifford Cheung , Gilly Elor , Lawrence J. Hall , Piyush Kumar

Lepton flavor violating (LFV) interactions involving dark matter (DM) particles remain a largely unexplored area. In this study, we systematically investigate LFV DM interactions within the framework of effective field theories by analyzing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Sahabub Jahedi , Jin-Han Liang , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Yoshiki Uchida

Dark matter (DM) charged under a dark U(1) force appears in many extensions of the Standard Model, and has been invoked to explain anomalies in cosmic-ray data, as well as a self-interacting DM candidate. In this paper, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-23 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala , Marco Taoso