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Dark Matter (DM) may be a thermal relic that annihilates into heavier states in the early Universe. This Forbidden DM framework accommodates a wide range of DM masses from keV to weak scales. An exponential hierarchy between the DM mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-13 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Joshua T. Ruderman

WIMP dark matter and gauge coupling unification are considered in an R-parity violating MSSM with vector-like matter. Dark matter is contained in an additional vector-like SU(2)$_L$ doublet which possesses a new U(1) gauge symmetry. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-14 Chun Liu , Jia-Shu Lu

We study direct detection in simplified models of Dark Matter (DM) in which interactions with Standard Model (SM) fermions are mediated by a heavy vector boson. We consider fully general, gauge-invariant couplings between the SM, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-26 Francesco D'Eramo , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Paolo Panci

Dark matter produced from thermal freeze-out is typically restricted to have masses above roughly 1 MeV. However, if the couplings are small, the freeze-in mechanism allows for production of dark matter down to keV masses. We consider dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Jae Hyeok Chang , Rouven Essig , Annika Reinert

In this work we study the hybrid kind of dark matter(DM) production mechanism where both thermal and non-thermal contribution at two different epochs set the DM relic abundance. This hybrid set up in turn shifts the parameter space of DM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Purusottam Ghosh , Sk Jeesun

In this paper, we present a model for sub-MeV dark matter with strong self interactions which can solve some of the small scale crisis of the $\Lambda$CDM. The dark matter is a Majorana fermion with only off-diagonal interactions with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Bhavesh Chauhan

The electron-positron excess reported by the DAMPE collaboration recently may be explained by an electrophilic dark matter (DM). A standard model singlet fermion may play the role of such a DM when it is stablized by some symmetries, such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-07 Pei-Hong Gu , Xiao-Gang He

We present a model featuring sub-GeV vector dark matter by augmenting the Standard Model with a new non-Abelian dark $SU(2)_D$, spontaneously broken by the vacuum expectation values of a scalar doublet and a triplet. Interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Avik Banerjee , Riccardo Catena , Taylor R. Gray

We present a new study on the Gravity-Mediated Dark Matter (GMDM) scenario, where interactions between dark matter (DM) and the Standard Model are mediated by spin-two particles. Expanding on this established framework, we explore a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-12 Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Veronica Sanz

We propose a two-component dark matter (DM) scenario by extending the Standard Model with two additional $SU(2)_L$ doublets, one scalar, and another fermion. To ensure the stability of the DM components, we impose a global $Z_2 \times…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Mariana Frank , Purusottam Ghosh , Chayan Majumdar , Supriya Senapati

The secluded dark matter resides within a hidden sector and self-annihilates into lighter mediators which subsequently decay to the Standard Model (SM) particles. Depending on the coupling strength of the mediator to the SM, the hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-27 Kwei-Chou Yang

Indirect searches for Dark Matter (DM) particles with mass in the MeV -- GeV scale have received significant attention lately. Pair-annihilations of such DM particles in the Galaxy can give rise to (at the same time) MeV to GeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Marco Cirelli , Arpan Kar , Halim Shaikh

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

We review dark matter (DM) candidates of a very low mass, appearing in the window below the traditional weakly-interacting massive particle $m_\chi \lesssim 10$ GeV and extending down to $m_\chi \gtrsim 1$ meV, somewhat below the mass limit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Kathryn M. Zurek

In dark matter (DM) models, the production of a gamma line (or of a "box-shaped" gamma-ray spectrum) from DM annihilation proceeds in general from a loop diagram involving a heavy charged particle. If the charged particle in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaoyong Chu , Thomas Hambye , Tiziana Scarna , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We present a comprehensive study of the Muonic Portal to Vector Dark Matter (MPVDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model featuring a new $SU(2)_D$ gauge symmetry and vector-like muons that mediate interactions between the dark sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Alexander Belyaev , Luca Panizzi , Nakorn Thongyoi , Franz Wilhelm

We propose an economical model to explain the apparent 130 GeV gamma ray peak, found in the Fermi/LAT data, in terms of dark matter annihilation through a dipole moment interaction. The annihilating dark matter particles represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey , Guy D. Moore

If the Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe has interactions with the standard-model particle, the pair annihilation may give the imprints in the cosmic ray. In this paper we study the pair annihilation processes of the DM, which is neutral,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Junji Hisano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri

We propose a mass-varying dark matter (MVDM) model consisting of a scalar field and a fermionic field interacting via a simple Yukawa coupling, and containing an exponential self-interaction potential for the scalar field. Analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Sayan Mandal , Neelima Sehgal

We investigate a minimal neutrino portal dark matter (DM) model where a right-handed neutrino both generates the observed neutrino masses and mediates between the SM and the dark sector, which consists of a fermion and a boson. In contrast…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Mathias Becker