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We study a minimal framework where a Majorana fermion dark matter particle interacts with a light scalar mediator coupled mainly to electrons. We examine both freeze-out and freeze-in production to determine the regions of parameter space…

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We explore model-independent collider constraints on light Majorana dark matter particles. We find that colliders provide a complementary probe of WIMPs to direct detection, and give the strongest current constraints on light DM particles.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jessica Goodman , Masahiro Ibe , Arvind Rajaraman , William Shepherd , Tim M. P. Tait , Hai-Bo Yu

We present comparisons of direct dark matter (DM) detection data for light WIMPs with exothermic scattering with nuclei (exoDM), both assuming the Standard Halo Model (SHM) and in a halo model - independent manner. Exothermic interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Graciela B. Gelmini , Andreea Georgescu , Ji-Haeng Huh

Leptophilic sub-MeV spin-zero dark matter (DM) decays into photons via one-loop processes, a scenario that has been in part overlooked in current literature. In this work, we provide updated and comprehensive upper limits on scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Gabriele Montefalcone , Gilly Elor , Kimberly K. Boddy , Nicola Bellomo

High energy colliders provide a new unique way to determine the microscopic properties of the dark matter (DM). Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are widely considered as one of the best DM candidates. It is usually assumed that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Wan Neng , Song Mao , Li Gang , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Jian-You

We construct models of dark matter with suppressed spin-independent scattering cross section utilizing the existing simplified model framework. Even simple combinations of simplified models can exhibit interference effects that cause the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Arghya Choudhury , Kamila Kowalska , Leszek Roszkowski , Enrico Maria Sessolo , Andrew J. Williams

We consider higher-dimensional effective (EFT) operators consisting of fermion dark matter (DM) connecting to Standard Model (SM) leptons upto dimension six. Considering all operators together and assuming the DM to undergo thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Basabendu Barman , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Sahabub Jahedi

Searches for Dark Matter at the LHC are commonly described in terms of simplified models with scalar, pseudo-scalar, vector and axial-vector mediators. In this work we explore the constraints imposed on such models from the observed Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Tristan du Pree , Kristian Hahn , Philip Harris , Christos Roskas

Using the existing simplified model framework, we build several dark matter models which have suppressed spin-independent scattering cross section. We show that the scattering cross section can vanish due to interference effects with models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-30 Arghya Choudhury , Kamila Kowalska , Leszek Roszkowski , Enrico Maria Sessolo , Andrew J. Williams

We explore the viability of detecting a leptophilic scalar dark matter at the ILC in a simplified model approach. We present the constraints on the couplings of scalar dark matter with the standard model fermions ensuing from the relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-20 Bharti Rawat

We study the self conjugate dark matter (DM) particles interacting primarily with the standard model leptons in an effective field theoretical frame work. We consider SM gauge invariant effective contact interactions between the Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Hrishabh Bharadwaj , Ashok Goyal

We study a class of simplified dark matter models in which dark matter couples directly with a mediator and a charged lepton. This class of Lepton Portal dark matter models has very rich phenomenology: it has loop generated dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

We study the discovery prospects of the leptophilic photon Z\_l, a hypothetical gauge boson beyond the Standard Model, at future electron-positron colliders. Our analysis is based on the process e+e- -> mu+mu- and consistently includes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-27 S. O. Kara

We calculate direct detection constraints on inelastic dark matter (DM) for a scalar portal scenario with leptophilic couplings. The p-wave velocity suppression of the annihilation cross section of scalar-mediated inelastic Dirac DM implies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 I. V. Voronchikhin , D. V. Kirpichnikov

Theoretical and experimental techniques employed in dedicated searches for dark matter at hadron colliders are reviewed. Bounds from the 7 and 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC on dark matter interactions have been collected and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Andrew Askew , Sushil Chauhan , Bjorn Penning , William Shepherd , Mani Tripathi

To illustrate the complementarity of the linear collider and astrophysics bounds on the light (MeV-scale mass) dark matter (DM), we study the constraints on the magnetic dipole DM from the DM-electron interactions at the proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-28 Kenji Kadota , Joseph Silk

Collider experiments are one of the most promising ways to constrain Dark Matter (DM) interactions. For several types of DM-Standard Model couplings, a meaningful interpretation of the results requires to go beyond effective field theory,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Reinard Primulando , Ennio Salvioni , Yuhsin Tsai

Any form of dark matter which was in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model in the early Universe must have some annihilation mechanism in order to avoid overclosure. In general, such models are now constrained by the negative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-12 Matthew R. Buckley , David Feld

Searching for dark matter (DM) at colliders is one of the biggest challenges in high-energy physics today. Significant efforts have been made to detect DM within the mass range of 1-10,000 GeV at the Large Hadron Collider and other…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-17 Tamas Almos Vami

We consider a minimal Dark Matter model with just two additional states, a Dark Matter Majorana fermion and a colored or electroweakly charged scalar, without introducing any symmetry to stabilize the DM state. We identify the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Giorgio Arcadi , Laura Covi