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From considering the effect of gamma-gamma interactions on recently observed TeV gamma-ray spectra, improved limits are set to the density of extragalactic infrared (IR) photons which are robust and essentially model-independent. The…

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

New particles in theories beyond the standard model can manifest as stable relics that interact strongly with visible matter and make up a small fraction of the total dark matter abundance. Such particles represent an interesting physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-10 David McKeen , David E. Morrissey , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani , Anupam Ray

The cosmic electron energy spectrum recently observed by the DAMPE experiment exhibits two interesting features, including a break around 0.9 TeV and a sharp resonance near 1.4 TeV. In this analysis, we propose a dark matter explanation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Xuewen Liu , Zuowei Liu , Yushan Su

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the most widely discussed extensions of the Standard Model when it comes to the strong CP problem and dark matter candidates. Current experiments are focused on the indirect searches of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Aleksandr Pustyntsev , Marc Vanderhaeghen

We discuss several aspects of astroparticle physics pertaining to a new model with MeV cold dark matter particles, which annihilate to electron-positron pairs in a manner yielding the correct CDM density required today, and explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Chen Jacoby , Shmuel Nussinov

The Positron Annihilation into Dark Matter Experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati has reported an excess of $e^+e^-$ final-state events from positron annihilation on fixed-target atomic electrons. While the global significance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Fernando Arias-Aragón , Giovanni Grilli di Cortona , Enrico Nardi , Claudio Toni

We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken underground in the NEXUS facility located at Fermilab with an…

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We elucidate the recently observed discrepancy in the branching ratio of $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}$ +inv decay mode using a GeV scale scalar dark matter in an anomaly-free $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge extension of the Standard Model. We constrain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Ajay Kumar Yadav , Shivaramakrishna Singirala , Manas Kumar Mohapatra , Suchismita Sahoo

We examine the recently observed deviation of the muon g - 2 from the Standard Model prediction within the framework of gravity mediated SUGRA models with R parity invariance. Universal soft breaking (mSUGRA) models, and models with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Arnowitt , B. Dutta , B. Hu , Y. Santoso

We examine the dark matter phenomenology in supersymmetric light higgs boson scenarios, adapting nonuniversal Higgs masses at the gauge coupling unification scale. The correct relic density is obtained mostly through the annihilation into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Debottam Das , Andreas Goudelis , Yann Mambrini

The DAMIC-M collaboration recently reported impressive bounds on sub-GeV dark matter, robustly testing both thermal and non-thermal models for the very first time. In this work we derive novel bounds from the recent PandaX-4T ionization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrew Cheek , Pablo Figueroa , Gonzalo Herrera , Ian M. Shoemaker

Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers achieve optimal sensitivity for dark matter in the 10 to 1000 GeV/c$^2$ mass range, but sub-GeV dark matter particles lack sufficient energy to produce nuclear recoils above detection thresholds in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Erin Barillier , Laura Manenti , Knut Mora , Paolo Padovani , Isaac Sarnoff , Yongheng Xu , Bjorn Penning , Francesco Arneodo

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

In the Littlest Higgs model with $T$ parity (LHT), the $T$-odd heavy photon ($A_H$) is weakly interacting and can play the role of dark matter. We investigate the lower limit on the mass of $A_H$ dark matter under the constraints from Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Lei Wu , Bingfang Yang , Mengchao Zhang

Sub-GeV light dark matter often requires new light mediators, such as a dark $Z$ boson in the $L_\mu - L_\tau$ gauge theory. We study the search potential for such a $Z^\prime$ boson via the process $\mu e^- \to \mu e^- X$, with $X$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Zijian Wang , Leyun Gao , Zhuo Chen , Cheng-en Liu , Jinning Li , Qite Li , Chen Zhou , Qiang Li , Yu Xu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Zhiyu Sun , Ce Zhang

We study a simple extension of the Standard Model featuring a dark sector with an ultralight pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson as dark matter candidate. We focus on the mass range $\mathcal{O}(10^{-20} - 10^{-10})$ eV, relevant for strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 António P. Morais , Vinícius Oliveira , António Onofre , Roman Pasechnik , Rui Santos