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We present a model independent analysis of inelastic dark matter transitions at direct detection experiments by modifying the elastic methodology of Fitzpatrick, et al. By analyzing the kinematics of inelastic transitions, we find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 G. Barello , Spencer Chang , Christopher A. Newby

Possible interactions of dark matter (DM) with Standard Model (SM) particles can be tested with spectral distortions (SDs) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In particular, a non-relativistic DM particle that scatters elastically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

We study the effect that uncertainties in the nuclear spin-dependent structure functions have in the determination of the dark matter (DM) parameters in a direct detection experiment. We show that different nuclear models that describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 David G. Cerdeno , Mattia Fornasa , Ji-Haeng Huh , Miguel Peiro

We discuss a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) that provides an explicit realization of the dark-matter (DM) neutrino-portal paradigm. The dark sector is composed of a scalar $ \Phi $ and a Dirac fermion $ \Psi $, with the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Vannia González-Macías , José I. Illana , José Wudka

We investigate the influence of ideal Fermi gas dark matter on the observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). Our analysis considers dark matter (DM) particle masses ($\mu$) ranging from $0.2$ GeV to $1$ GeV and various DM mass fractions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Monmoy Molla , Masum Murshid , Mehedi Kalam

We present a detailed analysis of the effect of an observationally determined dark matter (DM) velocity distribution function (VDF) of the Milky Way (MW) on DM direct detection rates. We go beyond local kinematic tracers and use rotation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 Sayan Mandal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Vikram Rentala , Ritoban Basu Thakur

In this paper, we systematically investigate the general dark matter-electron interactions within the framework of effective field theories (EFT). We consider both the non-relativistic (NR) EFT and the relativistic EFT descriptions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Jin-Han Liang , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We studied the effects of the absolute neutrino mass scale in the scotogenic radiative seesaw model. From a scan over the parameter space of this model, a linear relation between the absolute neutrino mass and the dark sector-Higgs coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-03 Thede de Boer , Michael Klasen , Caroline Rodenbeck , Sybrand Zeinstra

In this work we show how the inclusion of dark matter (DM) direct detection upper bounds in a theoretically consistent manner can affect the allowed parameter space of a DM model. Traditionally, the limits from DM direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-14 Cristina Marcos , Miguel Peiro , Sandra Robles

We investigate a previously overlooked bottom quark contribution to the spin-dependent cross section for Dark Matter(DM) scattering from the nucleon. While the mechanism is relevant to any supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-28 Jinmian Li , Anthony W. Thomas

We investigate how the dark energy properties change the cosmological limits on sterile neutrino parameters by using recent cosmological observations. We consider the simplest dynamical dark energy models, the $w$CDM model and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Lu Feng , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this work we study the outcomes related to dimensionless tidal deformability $(\Lambda)$ obtained through a relativistic mean-field (RMF) hadronic model including short-range correlations (SRC) and dark matter (DM) content [Phys. Rev. D…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-15 O. Lourenço , C. H. Lenzi , T. Frederico , M. Dutra

In this paper, we report the results of constraining the holographic dark energy model with spatial curvature and massive neutrinos, based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo global fit technique. The cosmic observational data include the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-21 Yun-He Li , Shuang Wang , Xiao-Dong Li , Xin Zhang

We show that the scattering rate for any dark matter (DM) interaction with electrons in any target is proportional to several measurable material properties, encapsulated by a single master formula. This generalizes the dielectric function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

This thesis explores the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars (NSs) using the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The effects of DM on NS properties, including the mass-radius relation, the moment of inertia, and tidal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 H. C. Das

Astrophysical and cosmological observations strongly suggest the existence of Dark Matter\,(DM). Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider\,(LHC) have the potential to probe the particle nature of the DM. In the present work, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Sweta Baradia , Sanchari Bhattacharyya , Anindya Datta , Suchandra Dutta , Suvankar Roy Chowdhury , Subir Sarkar

We explore the potential of the $e^+ e^-$ colliders to discover dark matter and determine its properties such as mass and the spin. For this purpose we study spin zero and spin one-half cases of dark matter, $D$ which belongs to $SU(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Alexander Belyaev , Arran Freegard , Ilya F. Ginzburg , Daniel Locke , Alexander Pukhov

Soft cosmology is an extension of standard cosmology allowing for a scale-dependent equation-of-state (EoS) parameter in the dark sectors, which is one of the properties of soft materials in condensed-matter physics, that may arise either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-12 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Spyros Basilakos

We revisit a cosmological model where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) follow barotropic equations of state, allowing deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework (i.e. $w_{dm} \neq 0$, $w_{de} \neq -1$), considering both flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Dorian Araya , Cristian Castillo , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña , Angie Barr Domínguez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

We briefly review the recent results of constraining neutrino mass in dynamical dark energy models using cosmological observations and summarize the findings. (i) In dynamical dark energy models, compared to $\Lambda$CDM, the upper limit of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Xin Zhang