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Dark Matter (DM) residing in a secluded sector with suppressed portal interaction could evade direct detections and collider searches. The indirect detections provide the most robust probe to this scenario. Depending on the structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-14 Jinmian Li , Takaaki Nomura , Junle Pei , Xiangwei Yin , Cong Zhang

The impact of dark matter-neutrino ($\nu$DM) interactions on cosmological perturbations has regained attention, spurred by indications of non-zero couplings from high-multipole cosmic microwave background data, weak lensing, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sebastian Trojanowski , Lei Zu

This study explores a minimal renormalizable dark matter (DM) model, incorporating a sub-GeV Majorana DM and a singlet scalar particle $\phi$. Using scalar and pseudo-scalar interactions (couplings $c_s$ and $c_p$), we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Yu-Tong Chen , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu

We study a class of simplified dark matter models in which dark matter couples directly with a mediator and a charged lepton. This class of Lepton Portal dark matter models has very rich phenomenology: it has loop generated dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

Semi-annihilation is a generic feature of dark matter theories with symmetries larger than Z2. We investigate two examples with multi-component dark sectors comprised of an SU(2)L singlet or triplet fermion besides a scalar singlet. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yi Cai , Andrew Paul Spray

Simplified models of the dark matter (co)annihilation mechanism predict striking new collider signatures untested by current searches. These models, which were codified in the coannihilation codex, provide the basis for a dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Malte Buschmann , Sonia El Hedri , Anna Kaminska , Jia Liu , Maikel de Vries , Xiao-Ping Wang , Felix Yu , Jose Zurita

Fermion dark matter (DM) interacting with the standard model through a Higgs portal requires non-renormalizable operators, signaling the presence of new mediator states at the electroweak scale. Collider signatures that involve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Ayres Freitas , Susanne Westhoff , Jure Zupan

In this work, we have studied the Vector Scotogenic Model in the context of the Dark Matter problem. Due to unitarity considerations, we have focused on the scenario with fermion dark matter, finding out that co-annihilations play a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-01 Paulo Areyuna C. , Jilberto Zamora-Saa , Alfonso R. Zerwekh

We study electroweak scale Dark Matter (DM) whose interactions with baryonic matter are mediated by a heavy anomalous $Z'$. We emphasize that when the DM is a Majorana particle, its low-velocity annihilations are dominated by loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-05 Ahmed Ismail , Andrey Katz , Davide Racco

We present a new class of Dark Matter (DM) models wherein the Standard Model (SM) is extended with a new $SU(2)_D$ dark gauge sector. In this framework the stability of DM is provided by the conservation of a $U(1)$ global symmetry, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-27 Alexander Belyaev , Aldo Deandrea , Stefano Moretti , Luca Panizzi , Douglas A. Ross , Nakorn Thongyoi

We consider scenarios where Dark Matter (DM) particles carry baryon and/or lepton numbers, which can be defined if there exist operators connecting the dark to the visible sector. As a result, the DM fields become intimately linked to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Nicolás Bernal , Chee Sheng Fong , Nayara Fonseca

In most models of the dark sector, dark matter is charged under some new symmetry to make it stable. We explore the possibility that not just dark matter, but also the force carrier connecting it to the visible sector is charged under this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 David Curtin , Yuhsin Tsai

The coannihilation mechanism is a well-motivated alternative to the simple thermal freeze-out mechanism, where the dark matter relic density can be obtained through the coannihilation with a partner particle of similar mass with dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-08 Jinhui Guo , Yuxuan He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang

We study pure weak eigenstate Dirac fermionic dark matters (DM). We consider WIMP with renormalizable interaction. According to results of direct searches and the nature of DM (electrical neutral and being a pure weak eigenstate), the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Chun-Khiang Chua , Ron-Chou Hsieh

We study a class of simplified dark matter models in which one dark matter particle couples with a mediator and a Standard Model fermion. In such models, collider and direct detection searches probe complimentary regions of parameter space.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

Conventional approaches to describe dark matter phenomenology at collider and (in)direct detection experiments in the form of dark matter effective field theory or simplified models suffer in general from drawbacks regarding validity at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-23 Tommi Alanne , Florian Goertz

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

Dark Matter (DM) models providing possible alternative solutions to the small- scale crisis of standard cosmology are nowadays of growing interest. We consider DM interacting with light hidden fermions via well motivated fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Tobias Binder , Laura Covi , Ayuki Kamada , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

The evidence of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the strongest observational arguments in favour of physics beyond the Standard Model. Despite expectations, a similar evidence has been lacking so far in collider searches, with the possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Diego Guadagnoli , Meril Reboud , Peter Stangl

We present generic formulae for computing how Sommerfeld corrections together with bound-state formation affects the thermal abundance of Dark Matter with non-abelian gauge interactions. We consider DM as a fermion 3plet (wino) or 5plet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-09 Andrea Mitridate , Michele Redi , Juri Smirnov , Alessandro Strumia