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We explore phenomenological constraints on, and future muon collider sensitivities to, the parameter spaces of various muonphilic portals to fermionic asymmetric dark matter (ADM). Both WEFT-level dimension-6 effective operators and two UV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Arnab Roy , Raymond R. Volkas

The introduction of electroweak multiplets that transform under any representation of the standard $SU(2)_L$ gauge group suggests the existence of electrically neutral stable particles capable of serving as cold dark matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Patricio Escalona , Sebastián Acevedo , Paulo Areyuna , Gonzalo Benítez-Irarrázabal , Pablo Solar , Alfonso Zerwekh

The Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE) remains a compelling but enigmatic signal from the inner region of our galaxy. Muonphilic dark matter (DM), which couples exclusively to muons via a new mediator, provides a viable explanation for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Wanyun Chen , Haoqi Li , Chih-Ting Lu , Qiulei Wang

Models of inelastic (or pseudo-Dirac) dark matter commonly assume an accidental symmetry between the left-handed and right-handed mass terms in order to suppress diagonal couplings. We point out that this symmetry is unnecessary, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Felix Kahlhoefer , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Thomas Schwetz

We investigate the constraints on the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics featuring a scalar dark matter candidate, using data from recent and future gamma-ray observatories. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Lucca Radicce Justino , Clarissa Siqueira , Aion Viana

Massive vector particles are minimal dark matter candidates that motivate a wide range of laboratory searches, primarily exploiting a postulated kinetic mixing with the photon. However, depending on the high energy field content, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Gordan Krnjaic , Tanner Trickle

Composite asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models provide a well-motivated paradigm that simultaneously explains dark matter (DM) relic density and matter-antimatter asymmetry. In these models, the mass of the DM candidate (the lightest dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Chih-Ting Lu , Changbin Xi

Z' gauge bosons arise in many particle physics models as mediators between the dark and visible sectors. We exploit dark matter complementarity and derive stringent and robust collider, direct and indirect constraints, as well as limits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Alexandre Alves , Asher Berlin , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

In a broad class of consistent models, MeV to few-GeV dark matter interacts with ordinary matter through weakly coupled GeV-scale mediators. We show that a suitable meter-scale (or smaller) detector situated downstream of an electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We present a model explaining both the 4.2 $\sigma$ muon $g-2$ anomaly and the relic density of dark matter (DM) in which DM interacts with the Standard Model (SM) via a scalar portal boson $\varphi$ carrying both dark and SM leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

The gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ model is well-motivated to explain the muon $g-2$ anomaly and dark matter in previous studies. However, the latest NA64$\mu$ experiment has almost excluded all the parameter space for the muon $g-2$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Zhen-Wei Wang , Zhi-Long Han , Fei Huang , Yi Jin , Honglei Li

Simplified models of light new physics provide a convenient benchmark for experimental searches for new physics signatures, including dark matter (DM). However, additional detection modes can arise in less simplified and more realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Krzysztof Jodłowski , Leszek Roszkowski , Sebastian Trojanowski

We show that the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole model in the hidden sector with Higgs portal interaction makes a viable dark matter model, where monopole and massive vector dark matter (VDM) are stable due to topological conservation and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Seungwon Baek , P. Ko , Wan-Il Park

We study LHC searches for an extension of the Standard Model (SM) by exploiting an additional Abelian $U_D(1)$ gauge symmetry and a complex scalar Higgs portal. As the scalar is charged under this gauge symmetry, a vector dark matter (VDM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Mojtaba Hosseini , Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi , Rouzbeh Rouzbehi

Many models have recently been proposed in which dark matter (DM) couples to Standard Model fields via a GeV-scale dark sector. We consider scenarios of this type where the DM mass, at the electroweak/TeV scale, is generated by the VEV of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-06-11 David Krohn , Joshua T. Ruderman , Lian-Tao Wang

We study the phenomenology of a vector dark matter (VDM) in a $U(1)_X$ gauged extension of the Standard Model (SM) which is connected to the type II seesaw framework via the Higgs portal. When this $U(1)_X$ symmetry is spontaneously broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-06 Nandini Das , Tapoja Jha , Dibyendu Nanda

The null signal from collider and dark matter (DM) direct detector experiments makes the interaction between DM and visible matter too small to reproduce the correct relic density for many thermal DM models. The remaining parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Jie-Cheng Feng , Xian-Wei Kang , Chih-Ting Lu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Feng-Shou Zhang

We present a new study on the Gravity-Mediated Dark Matter (GMDM) scenario, where interactions between dark matter (DM) and the Standard Model are mediated by spin-two particles. Expanding on this established framework, we explore a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-12 Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Veronica Sanz

We consider an experiment to search for dark sector particles in dark photon kinetic mixing model by analyze invisible and semi-invisible decays of neutral mesons $M^0 = \pi^0$, $\eta$, $\eta'$, $\omega$, $f_2(1270)$, produced in the NA64…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Sergei N. Gninenko , Dmitry V. Kirpichnikov , Sergey Kuleshov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Alexey S. Zhevlakov