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Dark matter scenarios with spin-0 mediators in the $s$-channel have be tested in well-established processes with missing energy, such as top-pair- and mono-jet-associated production. We suggest electroweak single top production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Tilman Plehn , Jennifer Thompson , Susanne Westhoff

Dark showers from strongly interacting dark sectors that confine at the GeV scale can give rise to novel signatures at $e^+e^-$ colliders. In this work, we study the sensitivity of $B$ factory experiments to dark showers produced through an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Elias Bernreuther , Kai Böse , Torben Ferber , Christopher Hearty , Felix Kahlhoefer , Alessandro Morandini , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Direct detection experiments have started to explore dark matter scattering off electrons and nucleons through light mediators. Mediators with sub-keV masses are efficiently produced in the Sun and can be absorbed in the same detectors that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Pieter Braat , Anh Vu Phan , Marieke Postma , Susanne Westhoff

Since many of the dark-sector particles interact with Standard Model (SM) particles in multiple ways, they can appear in experimental facilities where SM particles appear in abundance. In this study, we explore a particular class of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-15 Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Doojin Kim

Neutrinos elastically scattered off atomic electrons offer a unique opportunity to probe the Standard Model (SM) and beyond SM physics. In this work, we examine the new physics effects of light mediators through elastic neutrino-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Mehmet Demirci , M. Fauzi Mustamin

Fixed target missing-momentum experiments such as LDMX and M$^3$ are powerful probes of light dark matter and other light, weakly coupled particles beyond the Standard Model (SM). Such experiments involve $\sim$ 10 GeV beam particles whose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Nikita Blinov , Gordan Krnjaic , Douglas Tuckler

We propose a new mechanism for rendering dark matter self-interacting in the presence of a massive spin-2 mediator. The derived Yukawa-type potential for dark matter is independent of the spins of dark matter in the leading order of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-06 Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee

We revisit the WIMP-type dark matter scattering on electrons that results in atomic ionization, and can manifest itself in a variety of existing direct-detection experiments. Unlike the WIMP-nucleon scattering, where current experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-01 B. M. Roberts , V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum , M. Pospelov , Y. V. Stadnik

We show that the rate for dark matter-electron scattering in an arbitrary material is determined by an experimentally measurable quantity, the complex dielectric function, for any dark matter interaction that couples to electron density.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-16 Yonit Hochberg , Yonatan Kahn , Noah Kurinsky , Benjamin V. Lehmann , To Chin Yu , Karl K. Berggren

Cosmic ray atmospheric showers provide an effective environment for the production of MeV-scale dark sector particles. We show that, when available, the resonant annihilation of positrons from the shower on atmospheric electrons is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Luc Darmé

Proton beam-dump experiments are a high-intensity source of secondary muons and provide an opportunity to probe muon-specific dark sectors. We adopt a simplified-models framework for an exotic light scalar particle coupling predominantly or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Claudia Rella , Babette Döbrich , Tien-Tien Yu

We search for nuclear recoil signals of dark matter models with a light mediator using data taken from a p-type point-contact germanium detector of the CDEX-10 experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The 90% confidence level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Qi-Yuan Nie , Wen-Han Dai , Hao Ma , Qian Yue , Ke-Jun Kang , Yuan-Jing Li

Models of gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ can provide a solution to the long-standing discrepancy between the theoretical prediction for the muon anomalous magnetic moment and its measured value. The extra contribution is due to a new light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-18 Dorian Warren Praia do Amaral , David G. Cerdeno , Patrick Foldenauer , Elliott Reid

The Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) is a proposed fixed-target missing momentum search for sub-GeV thermal relic dark matter. LDMX aims to probe thermal dark matter targets with 1016 electrons on target. Such an approach requires a…

The NA64 experiment consists of two detectors which are planned to be located at the electron (NA64e) and muon (NA64$\mu$) beams of the CERN SPS and start operation after the LHC long-stop 2 in 2021. Its main goals include searches for dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

Dark matter particles could annihilate into light and metastable mediators subsequently decaying far away from where they are produced. In this scenario, the indirect signatures of dark matter are altered with respect to the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Xiaoyong Chu , Suchita Kulkarni , Pierre Salati

The link between ordinary Standard model (SM) photon and both dark photon and axion like particle (ALP) can be introduced through the dark axion portal coupling. Given the dark axion portal setup, in the present paper we refer the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Alexey S. Zhevlakov , Dmitry V. Kirpichnikov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij

We consider the effective theory for self-interacting dark matter with arbitrary spin and go beyond the previous discussion in the literature by introducing a massive spin-2 particle as the mediator for the dark matter self-scattering. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee

A number of direct detection experiments are searching for electron excitations created by scattering of sub-GeV dark matter. We present an alternate formulation of dark matter-electron scattering in terms of the dielectric response of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Simon Knapen , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Tongyan Lin