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The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in elementary particle physics. It might well be that the dark matter particle belongs to a dark sector completely secluded or extremely weakly coupled to the visible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-28 Nelleke Bunji , Bartosz Fornal , Kassandra Garcia

We study the lepton portal dark matter (DM) model in which the relic abundance is determined by the portal coupling among the Majorana fermion DM candidate $\chi$, the singlet charged scalar mediator $S^\pm$ and the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-29 Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

We promote the idea of multi-component Dark Matter (DM) to explain results from both direct and indirect detection experiments. In these models as contribution of each DM candidate to relic abundance is summed up to meet WMAP/Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar , Subhendu Rakshit

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

We investigate the imprints of accretion and dynamical friction on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes embedded in a scalar dark matter cloud. As a key feature in this work, we focus on scalar fields with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Alexis Boudon , Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas , Leong Khim Wong

In many new physics models with extended gauge symmetry, the new gauge boson $Z'$ could mediate the interactions between the dark matter and standard model particles. For the conventional $Z^\prime$ portal dark matter, the collider and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhen-Wei Wang , Zhi-Long Han , Fei Huang , Honglei Li , Ang Liu

Our contribution sets out to investigate the GeV-scale phenomenology of a model based on an $SU_{L}(2) \times U_{Y}(1) \times U(1)_{X}$-gauge symmetry. The model accommodates, as a consequence of the symmetry-breaking pattern, a light gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-18 M. J. Neves , J. A. Helaÿel-Neto

We study a simplest viable dark matter model with a real singlet scalar, vector-like singlet and a doublet lepton. We find a considerable enhancement in the allowed region of the scalar dark matter parameter spaces under the influence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Pritam Das , Mrinal Kumar Das , Najimuddin Khan

We study direct detection in simplified models of Dark Matter (DM) in which interactions with Standard Model (SM) fermions are mediated by a heavy vector boson. We consider fully general, gauge-invariant couplings between the SM, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-26 Francesco D'Eramo , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Paolo Panci

We study a scenario in which the dilaton, a pseudo-Goldstone boson of the spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry, provides a portal between dark matter and the visible sector. We consider the low-energy description of the theory in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Aielet Efrati , Eric Kuflik , Shmuel Nussinov , Yotam Soreq , Tomer Volansky

In this paper, we construct a viable model for a GeV scale self-interacting dark matter (DM), where the DM was thermally produced in the early universe. Here, a new vector-like fermion with a dark charge under the $U(1)_{D}$ gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Shu-Yu Ho , Pyungwon Ko , Dibyendu Nanda

In this Letter we explore the direct detection of the dark matter in the universe, assuming the dark matter particles are degenerate in mass with new colored particles below TeV scale. The scenario with such a mass spectrum is difficult to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-22 Junji Hisano , Koji Ishiwata , Natsumi Nagata

We study a two-component dark matter model consisting of a Dirac fermion and a complex scalar charged under new U(1) gauge group in the hidden sector. The dark fermion plays the dominant component of dark matter which explains the measured…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Soo-hyeon Nam

Here, we consider a classically scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model (SM) with two-component dark matter (DM) candidates, including a Dirac spinor and a scalar DM. We probe the parameter space of the model, constrained by relic…

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

We study a minimal model for a light scalar dark matter, requiring a light scalar mediator to address the core-cusp problem and interact with the standard model particles. We analyze the model comprehensively by focusing on the Breit-Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Tobias Binder , Sreemanti Chakraborti , Shigeki Matsumoto , Yu Watanabe

We study gravitational waves (GWs) with frequencies in the $\mu$Hz range, which arise from phase transitions related to dark confinement in the context of dark versions of Quantum Chromodynamics. Based on several compelling motivations, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Martin Rosenlyst

We investigate a neutral gauge boson X originated from a hidden U(1) extension of the standard model as the particle dark matter candidate. The vector dark matter interacts with the standard model fermions through heavy fermion mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Jiang-Hao Yu

We investigate a two-component dark matter scenario in the type-I two-Higgs-doublet model. The dark sector contains a real scalar $s$ and a Dirac fermion $\chi$, whose stability is ensured by a $Z_4$ symmetry together with kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Patricio Escalona , Jacinto P. Neto , M. J. Neves , Camila Ramos , David Suarez

Gravitational waves signatures from dynamical scalar field configurations provide a compelling observational window on the early universe. Here we identify intriguing connections between dark matter and scalars fields that emit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-13 Amit Bhoonah , Joseph Bramante , Simran Nerval , Ningqiang Song

Ultra-light bosons, naturally appearing in well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model, can constitute all the dark matter. Models with particle mass close to the smallest phenomenologically allowed exhibit coherent field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Diego Blas , Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente