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We discuss some aspects of dark matter phenomenology, in particular related to Direct detection and collider searches, of models in which a fermionic Dark Matter interacts with SM fermions through spin 1 mediators. Contrary to conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Giorgio Arcadi

We study UV complete theories where the Standard Model (SM) gauge group is extended with a new abelian $U(1)$, and the field content is augmented by an arbitrary number of scalar and fermion SM singlets, potentially including dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Yanou Cui , Francesco D'Eramo

Dark matter could emerge along with the Higgs as a composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson $\chi$ with decay constant $f\sim \mathrm{TeV}$. This type of WIMP is especially compelling because its leading interaction with the Standard Model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-20 Reuven Balkin , Maximilian Ruhdorfer , Ennio Salvioni , Andreas Weiler

We explore constraints on multipartite dark matter (DM) framework composed of singlet scalar DM interacting with the Standard Model (SM) through Higgs portal coupling. We compute relic density and direct search constraints including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-03 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Purusottam Ghosh , Poulose Poulose

We develop an effective field theory of a generic massive particle of any spin and, as an example, apply this to study higher-spin dark matter (DM). Our formalism does not introduce unphysical degrees of freedom, thus avoiding the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Juan Carlos Criado , Niko Koivunen , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

We propose a scenario with a fermion dark matter, where the dark matter particle used to be the Dirac fermion, but it takes the form of the Majorana fermion at a late time. The relic number density of the dark matter is determined by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

The extremely large hierarchy observed in the fermion mass spectrum remains as one of the most puzzling and unresolved issues in particle physics. In a recent proposal, however, it was demonstrated that by introducing one Higgs doublet (or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-27 C. B. Jackson

We investigate simplified models in which dark matter particles, taken to be either Dirac or Majorana fermions, couple to quarks via colored mediators. We determine bounds from colliders and direct detection experiments, and show how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Anthony DiFranzo , Keiko I. Nagao , Arvind Rajaraman , Tim M. P. Tait

Dark matter (DM) plays a crucial role in explaining the observed astrophysical anomalies, galaxy rotation curves, and other fundamental characteristics of the Universe. Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM), such as the dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-16 Vindhyawasini Prasad

In this study, we explore vector dark matter (DM) production in the early Universe focusing on a scenario with a low reheating temperature. One can achieve low reheat temperature in many ways, for example, by considering a longer lifetime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Sarif Khan , Jongkuk Kim , Hyun Min Lee

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

Dark matter (DM) constitutes 85% of the matter in the Universe. However, its specific particle property is still unclear. The fundamentals of DM particles subject to gravitational interaction, and that the lepton excess in cosmic rays may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-15 Sun Xu-Dong , Dai Ben-Zhong

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

A simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) that provides an explicit realization of the dark-matter (DM) neutrino-portal paradigm is presented. The leading interactions between the dark sector, containing scalars and relic fermions, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Vannia González-Macías , José Illana , José Wudka

We introduce a Minimal Simplified Dark Matter (MSDM) framework to quantitatively characterise dark matter (DM) searches at the LHC. We study two MSDM models where the DM is a Dirac fermion which interacts with a vector and axial-vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-19 Oliver Buchmueller , Matthew J. Dolan , Sarah A. Malik , Christopher McCabe

We investigate a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar and a singlet Dirac fermion acting as dark matter. Unlike a conventional singlet scalar setup, we assume that the singlet scalar does not acquire a vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaydeb Das , Saurabh Niyogi , Tripurari Srivastava

Minimal Flavour Violation hypothesis can provide an attractive framework for Dark Matter (DM). We consider scalar DM candidates carrying flavour quantum numbers and whose representation under the flavour group guarantees DM stability. They…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Luca Merlo

We explore a simple and predictive dark matter scenario involving a complex scalar field, $\phi$, coupled to the Higgs portal with no additional field content. In the UV, the field possesses a global $U(1)$ symmetry which is broken by mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic , Duncan Rocha , Subhojit Roy

We review simplified models in which a singlet Majorana dark matter candidate couples to Standard Model (SM) fermions through interactions mediated by scalar fermion partners. We summarize the two primary production mechanisms in these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 Tathagata Ghosh , Chris Kelso , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

We made global fits of the inert Higgs doublet model (IDM) in the light of collider and dark matter search limits and the requirement for a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). These show that there are still IDM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Shehu AbdusSalam , Leila Kalhor , Mohammad Mohammadidoust