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XMASS-I uses single phase liquid xenon technology for aiming at the direct detection of dark matter. The detector observes only scintillation light by 2 inch 642 PMTs which are placed in sphere shape around an active volume. With its large…

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We address the question of whether the upcoming generation of dark matter search experiments and colliders will be able to discover if the dark matter in the Universe has two components of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-23 Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson , Lorenzo Ubaldi

Dark matter (DM) direct detections are investigated for models with the following properties: isospin-violating couplings, exothermic scatterings, and/or a light mediator, with the aim to reduce the tension between the CDMS-Si positive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-06 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Chun-Hao Lee

We report the results of a weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter search using the full 80.1\;live-day exposure of the first stage of the PandaX experiment (PandaX-I) located in the China Jin-Ping Underground Laboratory. The…

We report the search results of light dark matter through its interactions with shell electrons and nuclei, using the commissioning data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector. Low energy events are selected to have an ionization-only…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-29 PandaX Collaboration

We propose a major upgrade to the existing PandaX-4T experiment in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The new experiment, PandaX-xT, will be a multi-ten-tonne liquid xenon, ultra-low background, and general-purpose observatory. The…

We revisit thermal Majorana dark matter from the viewpoint of minimal effective field theory. In this framework, analytic results for dark matter annihilation into standard model particles are derived. The dark matter parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-04 Huayong Han , Hongyan Wu , Sibo Zheng

We present an in-depth study of two-component cold dark matter via extensive N-body simulations. We examine various cosmological observables including the temperature evolution, power spectrum, density perturbation, maximum circular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Jeong Han Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Se Hwan Lim , Jong-Chul Park

A comprehensive analysis of cosmological and collider constraints is presented for three simplified models characterised by a dark matter candidate (real scalar, Majorana fermion and real vector) and a coloured mediator (fermion, scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-22 Chiara Arina , Benjamin Fuks , Luca Mantani , Hanna Mies , Luca Panizzi , Jakub Salko

We present a search for light dark matter particles through their interactions with atomic electrons and nucleons, utilizing PandaX-4T data with an effective exposure of 1.04 tonne$\cdot$year for ionization-only data and 1.20…

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We discuss in detail the possibility that the ``type-II majoron'' -- that is, the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson that arises in the context of the type-II seesaw mechanism if the lepton number is spontaneously broken by an additional singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Carla Biggio , Lorenzo Calibbi , Toshihiko Ota , Samuele Zanchini

We study in this paper the scenario where the dark matter is constituted by Majorana particles which couple to a light Standard Model fermion and an extra scalar via a Yukawa coupling. In this scenario, the annihilation rate into the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl

This study explores a two-component dark matter model in which one component, heavier dark matter, annihilates into a lighter dark matter. The lighter dark matter is expected to generate detectable signals in detectors due to its enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Keiko I. Nagao , Tatsuhiro Naka , Takaaki Nomura

We analyze a classically scale invariant extension of the Standard Model with dark gauge $U(1)_X$ broken by doubly charge scalar $\Phi$ leaving a remnant $Z_2$ symmetry. Dark fermions are introduced as dark matter candidates and for anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-10 Sanjin Benic , Branimir Radovcic

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

Direct detection bounds are beginning to constrain a very simple model of weakly interacting dark matter---a Majorana fermion with a coupling to the $Z$ boson. In a particularly straightforward gauge-invariant realization, this coupling is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 John Kearney , Nicholas Orlofsky , Aaron Pierce

We propose and study a new minimal model for two-component dark matter. The model contains only three additional fields, one fermion and two scalars, all singlets under the Standard Model gauge group. Two of these fields, one fermion and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sonja Esch , Michael Klasen , Carlos E. Yaguna

A minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) by a vector-like fermion doublet and three right handed (RH) singlet neutrinos is proposed in order to explain dark matter and tiny neutrino mass simultaneously. The DM arises as a mixture of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-29 Manoranjan Dutta , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Purusottam Ghosh , Narendra Sahu

The current paradigm for dark matter direct detection is to assume that the dark sector is solely composed of a single particle species. In this short paper, we make the observation that dark matter comprising both a light and a heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-17 Juan Herrero-Garcia , Andre Scaffidi , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams