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We revisit the status of a Majorana fermion as a dark matter candidate when a sequential Z' gauge boson dictates the dark matter phenomenology. Direct dark matter detection signatures rise from dark matter-nucleus scatterings at bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-21 Giorgio Arcadi , Miguel D. Campos , Manfred Lindner , Antonio Masiero , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

We study the direct-detection rate for axial-vectorial dark matter scattering off nuclei in an $\mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{U}(1)$ invariant effective theory and compare it against the LHC reach. Current constraints from direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-09 T. Alanne , F. Bishara , J. Fiaschi , O. Fischer , M. Gorbahn , U. Moldanazarova

An interesting class of models posits that the dark matter is a Majorana fermion which interacts with a quark together with a colored scalar mediator. Such a theory can be tested in direct detection experiments, through dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 Kirtimaan A. Mohan , Dipan Sengupta , Tim M. P Tait , Bin Yan , C. -P. Yuan

Recent results from direct detection experiments such as LUX, PANDAX-II and XENON100 have imposed severe constraints on the multi-GeV mass window in various dark matter (DM) models. However, many of these experiments are not sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-11 Debajyoti Choudhury , Divya Sachdeva

Weakly interacting massive particles are a widely well-probed dark matter candidate by the dark matter direct detection experiments. Theoretically, there are a large number of ultraviolet completed models that consist of a weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Zuowei Liu , Yushan Su , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Bingrong Yu , Qiang Yuan

We investigate the power of low-energy, high-luminosity electron--positron colliders to probe hidden sectors with a mass below ~10 GeV that couple to Standard Model particles through a light mediator. Such sectors provide well-motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-24 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Michele Papucci , Tomer Volansky , Yi-Ming Zhong

We consider a Dark Matter candidate particle of spin 3/2 with neutrino-like Standard Model strength interactions. In the Majorana case, the particle can account for all of the Dark Matter for a range of masses between 70-160 GeV, depending…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Konstantin G. Savvidy , J. D. Vergados

Identifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the major challenges for modern astro and particle physics. Direct dark-matter searches aim at an observation of dark-matter particles interacting within detectors. The focus of…

We present a novel constraint on light dark matter utilizing $1.54$ tonne$\cdot$year of data acquired from the PandaX-4T dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. This constraint is derived through detecting electronic recoil signals…

We study the capabilities of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Laboratory, as a light WIMP detector. For a cross section near the current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-17 Alexander Friedland , Ian M. Shoemaker

Dark matter particles with masses in the sub-GeV range have escaped severe constraints from direct detection experiments such as LUX, PANDAX-II and XENON100 as the corresponding recoil energies are, largely, lower than the detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Debajyoti Choudhury , Divya Sachdeva

In this letter, we report the dark matter search results from the commissioning run and the first science run of the PandaX-4T experiment. A blind analysis is carried out on the entire data set. The data processing is improved compared to…

Light Dark Matter, $<10$ GeV, with sizable direct detection rate is an interesting and less explored scenario. Collider searches can be very powerful, such as through the channel in which a pair of dark matter particle are produced in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Haipeng An , Xiangdong Ji , Lian-Tao Wang

An annual modulation signal due to the Earth orbiting around the Sun would be one of the strongest indications of the direct detection of dark matter. In 2016, we reported a search for dark matter by looking for this annual modulation with…

We present a new multi-component dark matter model with a novel experimental signature that mimics neutral current interactions at neutrino detectors. In our model, the dark matter is composed of two particles, a heavier dominant component…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Kaustubh Agashe , Yanou Cui , Lina Necib , Jesse Thaler

We study the experimental constraints on a model of a two-component dark matter, consisting of the QCD axion, and a scalar particle, both contributing to the dark matter relic abundance of the Universe. The global Peccei-Quinn symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-28 Suman Chatterjee , Anirban Das , Tousik Samui , Manibrata Sen

We report on the first dark-matter (DM) search results from PandaX-I, a low threshold dual-phase xenon experiment operating at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In the 37-kg liquid xenon target with 17.4 live-days of exposure, no DM…

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory. No dark matter candidate is…

The PandaX project consists of a series of xenon-based experiments that are used to search for dark matter (DM) particles and to study the fundamental properties of neutrinos. The next DM experiment PandaX-4T will be using 4 ton liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-15 Qibin Zheng , Yanlin Huang , Di Huang , Jianglai Liu , Xiangxiang Ren , Anqing Wang , Meng Wang , Jijun Yang , Binbin Yan , Yong Yang