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We study a $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model (SM) in which Dirac neutrino masses are generated radiatively at the one-loop level through the exchange of new beyond the SM fields. This framework establishes a direct connection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Chayan Majumdar , Utkarsh Patel , Supriya Senapati , Sudhanwa Patra

A search is presented for production of dark matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-07-14 ATLAS Collaboration

A strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP) is an interesting candidate for dark matter (DM) because its self-interaction cross section can be naturally strong enough to address the astrophysical problem of small-scale structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Ayuki Kamada , Masaki Yamada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We consider a non-Abelian dark SU(2)$_{\rm D}$ model where the dark sector couples to the Standard Model (SM) through a Higgs portal. We investigate two different scenarios of the dark sector scalars with $Z_2$ symmetry, with Higgs portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Tathagata Ghosh , Huai-Ke Guo , Tao Han , Hongkai Liu

This analysis presents the possibility for the search for Dark Matter (DM) particles using events with a Z$^{\prime}$ heavy gauge boson and a large missing transverse momentum at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We consider the muonic decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-06-03 S. Elgammal , M. A. Louka , A. Y. Ellithi , M. T. Hussein

The LHCb collaboration has recently reported on some anomalies in $b\to s$ transitions. In addition to discrepancies with the Standard Model (SM) predictions in some angular observables and branching ratios, an intriguing hint for lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-31 D. Aristizabal Sierra , Florian Staub , Avelino Vicente

Under certain running conditions, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be considered as a photon-photon collider. Indeed, in proton-proton, proton-ion, ion-ion collisions, when incoming particles pass very close to each other in very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 L. Schoeffel , C. Baldenegro , H. Hamdaoui , S. Hassani , C. Royon , M. Saimpert

We consider theories where dark matter is composed of a thermal relic of weak scale mass, whose couplings to the Standard Model (SM) are however too small to give rise to the observed abundance. Instead, the abundance is set by annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-18 Zackaria Chacko , Yanou Cui , Sungwoo Hong , Takemichi Okui

Searches for dark matter at colliders typically involve signatures with energetic initial-state radiation without visible recoil particles. Searches for mono-jet or mono-photon signatures have yielded powerful constraints on dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Linda M. Carpenter , Andrew Nelson , Chase Shimmin , Tim M. P. Tait , Daniel Whiteson

The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. The first results from a search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-27 FASER Collaboration

We review current results on physics with photons at the LHC and discuss realistic perspectives of photon physics at future colliders. In particular, we focus on Standard Model (SM) measurements with photons at the upcoming high-luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-25 M. Klasen

We introduce a dark photon considering a U(1) gauge extension of the standard model in particle physics. Provided that the extra U(1) symmetry is unbroken, the dark photon is massless and has no coupling to the standard electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Xiaolong Deng , Florentin Jaffredo , Minoru Tanaka

We investigate an extension of the left-right symmetric model featuring an additional non-abelian $SU(2)$ gauge symmetry. The particle content is augmented by one generation of vector-like leptons transforming under the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Yassine Bouzeraib , Mohamed Sadek Zidi , Geneviève Bélanger

We consider a model of dark photon which appears as a result of the successive symmetry breaking SU(2)$\,\to\,$U(1)$\,\to \mathbb{Z}_2$, where various types of topological defects appear in the dark sector. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Akifumi Chitose , Masahiro Ibe

Composite Higgs models feature new strong dynamics leading to the description of the Higgs boson as a bound state arising from the breaking of a global (flavour) symmetry. These models generally include light states generated by the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Alan S. Cornell , Aldo Deandrea , Benjamin Fuks , Lara Mason

We analyse dark matter (DM) produced somehow in space-time is charged under the hidden $U^{\prime} (1)$ gauge symmetry and interacting with Standard Model (SM) through the scale invariance breaking sector containing dilatons and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-11 Gennady Kozlov

The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) is a new experiment at Jefferson Lab that will search for heavy U(1) vector bosons (heavy photons or dark photons) in the mass range of 20 MeV/c$^2$ to 1 GeV/c$^2$. Dark photons in this mass range are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-28 Omar Moreno

If dark matter (DM) interacts with the Standard Model (SM) via the kinetic mixing (KM) portal, it necessitates the existence of portal matter (PM) particles which carry both dark and SM quantum numbers that will appear in vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 Thomas G. Rizzo

We study flavor changing neutral current decays of $B$ and $K$ mesons in the dark $U(1)_D$ model, with the dark photon/dark $Z$ mass between 10 MeV and 2 GeV. Although the model provides an improved fit (compared to the standard model) to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Alakabha Datta , A. Hammad , Danny Marfatia , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Ahmed Rashed

We study collider constraints on the near-continuum dark matter model, in which the dark sector consists of a tower of closely spaced states with weak-scale masses coupled to the Standard Model through a $Z$-portal. To capture this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Steven Ferrante , Lillian Luo , Maxim Perelstein , Taewook Youn