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A weakly coupled and light dark photon coupling to lepton charges $L_\mu-L_\tau$ is an intriguing dark matter candidate whose coherent oscillations alter the dispersion relations of leptons. We study how this effect modifies the dynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Katarina Bleau , James M. Cline

We study a Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter model and its signatures at a future Muon Collider. We focus on the less-explored regime of feeble dark matter interactions, which suppresses the dangerous lepton-flavor violating processes, gives rise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Pouya Asadi , Aria Radick , Tien-Tien Yu

Despite growing interest and extensive effort to search for ultralight dark matter in the form of a hypothetical dark photon, how it fits into a consistent cosmology is unclear. Several dark photon dark matter production mechanisms proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-03 Raymond T. Co , Aaron Pierce , Zhengkang Zhang , Yue Zhao

We make a comprehensive study of vector-like fermionic dark matter and flavor anomalies in a simple extension of standard model. The model is added with doublet vector-like fermions of quark and lepton types, and also a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-09 Suchismita Sahoo , Shivaramakrishna Singirala , Rukmani Mohanta

We show that a couplet, a pair of closely spaced photon lines, in the X-ray spectrum is a distinctive feature of lepton flavored dark matter models for which the mass spectrum is dictated by Minimal Flavor Violation. In such a scenario,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic , Christopher B. Verhaaren

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

Motivated by the recent Xenon1T result, we study a leptophilic flavour-dependent anomaly-free axion-like particle (ALP) and its effects on charged-lepton flavour violation (CLFV). We present two representative models. The first one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 C. Han , M. L. López-Ibáñez , A. Melis , O. Vives , J. M. Yang

Flavour symmetries provide an appealing mechanism to stabilize the dark matter particle. I present a simple model of quark flavoured dark matter that goes beyond the framework of minimal flavour violation. I discuss the phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-18 Monika Blanke

We propose a framework that links the origin of the Standard Model flavour hierarchies to the generation of asymmetric dark matter via leptogenesis. The key new ingredient is a gauged $SO(3)$ flavour symmetry acting on both the visible and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , David Garcia-Garcia , Javier M. Lizana

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

We show that the discovery channel for dark matter (DM) production at colliders can be through flavor violating interactions resulting in a novel signature of a single top and large missing transverse energy. We discuss several examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 Jernej F. Kamenik , Jure Zupan

We propose a new freeze-in dark matter candidate which feebly couples to the standard model charged leptons. The feeble interactions allow it (i) to freeze-in from the Standard Model thermal bath with its relic density being either a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-27 Zixuan Xu , Shuai Xu , Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng

We study a simplified model of lepton-flavoured complex scalar dark matter set up in the Dark Minimal Flavour Violation framework. In this model the Standard Model is extended by a scalar dark matter flavour triplet and a charged fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-18 Harun Acaroğlu , Prateek Agrawal , Monika Blanke

Axions and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for the missing dark matter of the universe. As they undergo gravitational collapse, they can form compact objects such as axion stars or even black holes. In this paper, we study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 James Y. Widdicombe , Thomas Helfer , David J. E. Marsh , Eugene A. Lim

We study inelastic dark matter produced via freeze-in through a light mediator with a mass splitting below the electron-positron threshold. In this regime, the heavier dark matter state is naturally long-lived compared to the age of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Gordan Krnjaic , David McKeen , Riku Mizuta , Gopolang Mohlabeng , David E. Morrissey , Douglas Tuckler

We explore a class of models which can provide a common origin for the recently observed evidence for lepton flavor universality violation in $b \to s l^+ l^- $ decays, the dark matter (DM) problem and the long-standing muon $(g-2)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Da Huang , António P. Morais , Rui Santos

Recently, two of the present authors showed that even when the axion momentum is much smaller than its mass, the axion can still behave like radiation if its energy density greatly exceeds the maximum potential energy set by the cosine-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Max Miyazaki , Yuma Narita , Deheng Song , Nemin Yaginuma , Wen Yin

Implementing the axion concept in the context of 3-3-1 extensions of the Standard Model (SM) leads to richer properties than in the simpler axion setups, and related to the Dirac neutrino seesaw mechanism. In this way the smallness of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Anirban Karan , Julio Leite , José W. F. Valle

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

We present a new mechanism for producing the correct relic abundance of dark photon dark matter over a wide range of its mass, extending down to $10^{-20}\,\mathrm{eV}$. The dark matter abundance is initially stored in an axion which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-11 Prateek Agrawal , Naoya Kitajima , Matthew Reece , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Fuminobu Takahashi