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A search is conducted for new physics in final states containing a photon and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV, using the data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-05 CMS Collaboration

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

We derive structure formation limits on dark matter (DM) composed of keV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), produced via freeze-in through the interactions with photons and Standard Model (SM) fermions. We employ Lyman-alpha (Ly-{\alpha})…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Sven Baumholzer , Vedran Brdar , Enrico Morgante

We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-29 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Satoshi Shirai , Naoki Yoshida

We use large-scale cosmological observations to place constraints on the dark-matter pressure, sound speed and viscosity, and infer a limit on the mass of warm-dark-matter particles. Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Martin Kunz , Savvas Nesseris , Ignacy Sawicki

The current generation of Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments has ruled out a large region of parameter space for dark matter, particularly in the ($10 - 1000$) GeV mass range. However, due to very low event rates, searching for dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Praveen Bharadwaj , Ranjeet Kumar , Hemant Kumar Prajapati , Rahul Srivastava , Sushant Yadav

We revisit the upper bound on the annihilation cross-section, $\langle\sigma v\rangle$ of a stable dark matter (DM) of mass $5\times10^2-10^{14}$ GeV by considering five different channels: $W^+W^-$, $b\bar{b}$, $\mu^+\mu^-$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Nagisa Hiroshima , Kazunori Kohri , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu

We present constraints on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) through the mechanism of being boosted by cosmic rays (CRs). We utilize the nuclear recoil data from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment for this purpose. Without the mechanism of boosted dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Atanu Guha , Jong-Chul Park

We obtain the first cosmological constraints on interactions between dark matter and protons within the formalism of nonrelativistic effective field theory developed for direct detection. For each interaction operator in the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic

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

The observational value of the velocity dispersion, $\Delta\upsilon$, is missing in the Dark Matter (DM) puzzle. Non-zero or non-thermal DM velocities can drastically influence Large Scale Structure and the 21-cm temperature at the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Iván Rodríguez-Montoya , Vladimir Ávila-Reese , Abdel Pérez-Lorenzana , Jorge Venzor

We report results of a search for light (<10 GeV) particle dark matter with the XENON10 detector. The event trigger was sensitive to a single electron, with the analysis threshold of 5 electrons corresponding to 1.4 keV nuclear recoil…

We analyze strongly lensed images in 8 galaxy clusters to measure their dark matter density profiles in the radial region between 10 kpc and 150 kpc, and use this to constrain the self-interaction cross section of dark matter (DM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kevin E. Andrade , Jackson Fuson , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Demao Kong , Quinn Minor , M. Grant Roberts , Manoj Kaplinghat

Using data from the $\nu$-cleus detector, based on the surface of the Earth, we place constraints on dark matter in the form of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles (SIMPs) which interact with nucleons via nuclear-scale cross sections.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Jonathan H. Davis

Light Dark Matter (DM), defined here as having a mass between 1 MeV and about 1 GeV, is an interesting possibility both theoretically and phenomenologically, at one of the frontiers of current progress in the field of DM searches. Its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Elena Pinetti

In 15 years of data taking the Pierre Auger Observatory has observed no events beyond $10^{11.3}$ GeV. This null result translates into an upper bound on the flux of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays implying $J (> 10^{11.3}$ GeV) $< 3.6 \times…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Esteban Alcantara , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Jorge F. Soriano

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

We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) scattering off nucleons. For DM masses in the range $10 \text{ keV }- 100 \text{ MeV}$, cross sections greater than $10^{-36}$- $10^{-30} \,\text{cm}^2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-24 Gilly Elor , Robert McGehee , Aaron Pierce

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