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Dark photons with masses in the 1-100 eV range can be produced in the Sun and subsequently absorbed in terrestrial detectors, offering a promising avenue for probing hidden-sector physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we develop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Theresa M. Backes , Riccardo Catena , Michael Krämer

We study a new class of signals where fermionic dark matter is absorbed by bound electron targets. Fermionic absorption signals in direct detection and neutrino experiments are sensitive to dark matter with sub-MeV mass, probing a region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-28 Jeff A. Dror , Gilly Elor , Robert McGehee , Tien-Tien Yu

The dark photon is a new hypothetical gauge boson arising in extensions of the Standard Model, and constitutes a compelling dark matter candidate. As dark photon dark matter (DPDM), it can interact with electromagnetic fields via kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Júlia G. Mamprim , Aion Viana , Vitor de Souza

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Dark photons are massive abelian gauge bosons that interact with ordinary photons via a kinetic mixing with the hypercharge field strength tensor. This theory is probed by a variety of different experiments and limits are set on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Daniele Barducci , Enrico Bertuzzo , Giovanni Grilli di Cortona , Gabriel M. Salla

Dark photons (DPs) produced in the early Universe are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. We show that the recently proposed tunable plasma haloscopes are particularly advantageous for DP searches. While in-medium effects suppress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Graciela B. Gelmini , Alexander J. Millar , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

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

Electric dipole moment (EDM) measurements using paramagnetic molecules have significantly advanced over the last decade. Traditionally, these experiments have been analyzed in terms of the electron EDM. However, paramagnetic molecules are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Lemonia Gialidi , Javier Menéndez , Heleen Mulder , Beatriz Romeo

Light axion-like particles occur in many theories of beyond-Standard-Model physics, and may make up some or all of the universe's dark matter. One of the ways they can couple to the Standard Model is through the electromagnetic $F_{\mu\nu}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Robert Lasenby

We carry out a model independent study of resonant photon scattering off dark matter (DM) particles. The DM particle chi_1 can feature an electric or magnetic transition dipole moment which couples it with photons and a heavier neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

Various dark matter search experiments employ phonon-based crystal detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Some of these detectors, including certain silicon detectors used by the SuperCDMS Collaboration, are able to achieve…

We analyze interactions between dark matter and standard model particles with spin one mediators in an effective field theory framework. In this paper, we are considering dark particles masses in the range from a few MeV to the mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-02 Fabiola Fortuna , Pablo Roig , José Wudka

In this article, we have studied the cosmological and particle physics constraints on dark matter relic abundance from effective field theory of inflation using tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$), in case of Randall-Sundrum single membrane (RSII)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-05 Sayantan Choudhury , Arnab Dasgupta

We perform a detailed study of an effective field theory which includes the Standard Model particle content extended by a pair of Weyl fermionic SU(2)-doublets with opposite hypercharges. A discrete symmetry guarantees that a linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-29 Athanasios Dedes , Dimitrios Karamitros , Vassilis C. Spanos

Ultra-light scalar fields and their non-interacting class, the so-called fuzzy dark matter (FDM), are candidates for dark matter, introduced to solve the small-scale problems of the standard cold dark matter. In this paper, we address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 Hamed Manouchehri Kousha , Sina Hooshangi , Aliakbar Abolhasani

At sufficiently low nuclear recoil energy, the scattering of dark matter (DM) in crystals gives rise to single phonon and multiphonon excitations. In anisotropic crystals, the scattering rate into phonons modulates over each sidereal day as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Connor Stratman , Tongyan Lin

We revisit the calculation of bosonic dark matter absorption via electronic excitations. Working in an effective field theory framework and consistently taking into account in-medium effects, we clarify the relation between dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and the Low Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT) can be extended by adding additional spin 0, 1/2 and 1 dark matter particles which are singlets under the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-13 Jason Aebischer , Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

We explore the properties of self-conjugate dark matter (DM) particles that predominantly interact with Standard Model electroweak gauge bosons, using an effective field theory approach. The study emphasizes effective contact interactions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-06 Hrishabh Bharadwaj

Dipolar Dark Matter (DDM) is an alternative model motivated by the challenges faced by the standard cold dark matter model to describe the right phenomenology at galactic scales. A promising realisation of DDM was recently proposed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Luc Blanchet , Lavinia Heisenberg