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The detection of Dark Matter (DM) remains a significant challenge in particle physics. This study exploits advanced machine learning models to improve detection capabilities of liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments, utilizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Andres D. Perez , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We consider a simple renormalizable dark matter model consisting of two real scalars with a mass splitting $\delta$, interacting with the SM particles through the Higgs portal. We find a viable parameter space respecting all the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-23 Karim Ghorbani , Hossein Ghorbani

We present a hidden Abelian extension of the Standard Model including a complex scalar as a dark matter candidate and a light scalar acting as a long range force carrier between dark matter particles. The Sommerfeld enhanced annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiara Arina , Francois-Xavier Josse-Michaux , Narendra Sahu

In the simplest Higgs-portal scalar dark matter model, the dark matter mass has been restricted to be either near the resonant mass ($m_h/2$) or in a large-mass region by the direct detection at LHC Run 1 and LUX. While the large-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Huayong Han , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang , Sibo Zheng

We study a fermionic dark matter candidate that couples to the standard model particles exclusively through electric and magnetic dipole operators mediated by a massive dark photon. Such dipole portals naturally arise in dark sectors where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Takumi Kuwahara , Jun-Chen Wang , Shu-Run Yuan

We study the effect of a long-range DM-nuclei interaction occurring via the exchange of a light mediator. We consider the main direct detection experiments: DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST, CDMS and XENON100. We find that a long-range force is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-12 Paolo Panci

A massive real scalar dark matter particle $S$ can couple to Standard Model leptons or quarks through a vector-like fermionic mediator $\psi$, a scenario known as the Vector-like portal. Due to helicity suppression of the annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-07 Stefano Colucci , Federica Giacchino , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Jérôme Vandecasteele

We consider fermionic (Dirac or Majorana) cold thermal relic dark-matter coupling to standard-model particles through the effective dimension-5 Higgs portal operators $\Lambda^{-1} \ \mathcal{O}_{\text{DM}} \cdot H^\dagger H$, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Michael A. Fedderke , Jing-Yuan Chen , Edward W. Kolb , Lian-Tao Wang

We investigate the feasibility of the indirect detection of dark matter in a simple model using the neutrino portal. The model is very economical, with right-handed neutrinos generating neutrino masses through the Type-I seesaw mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Brian Batell , Tao Han , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

It is usually assumed that dark matter direct detection is sensitive to a large fraction of the dark matter (DM) velocity distribution. We propose an alternative form of dark matter-nucleus scattering which only probes a narrow range of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox

A few multiplets that can be added to the SM contain a lightest neutral component which is automatically stable and provides allowed DM candidates with a non-standard phenomenology. Thanks to coannihilations, a successful thermal abundance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Alessandro Strumia

The Higgs-portal model with a singlet scalar Dark Matter particle is one of the simplest extensions to the Standard Model that can reproduce the relic density. Unfortunately this model is strongly constrained by direct and indirect DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Javier Quilis

In the past decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved questions in modern physics. The sensitivity of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-04 Teresa Marrodan Undagoitia , Ludwig Rauch

We study the fermionic dark matter (DM) particle interacting with Standard Model quarks via a light pseudoscalar mediator. We consider separately the scenarios for which the DM-pseudoscalar coupling is $CP$ conserving or $CP$ violating. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-22 Kwei-Chou Yang

Neutrino masses and dark matter (DM) might have a common origin. The scotogenic model can be considered the proto-type model realizing this idea, but many other variants exist. In this paper we explore the phenomemology of a particular DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Carolina Arbeláez , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Téssio B. de Melo

We investigate direct detection signatures of dark matter particles interacting with quarks via a light spin-0 mediator with general CP phases. Since tree-level scattering may be strongly suppressed in the non-relativistic limit, loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-31 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer

We outline the WIMP dark matter parameter space in the Constrained MSSM by performing a comprehensive statistical analysis that compares with experimental data predicted superpartner masses and other collider observables as well as a cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Roberto Trotta , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Leszek Roszkowski

We perform the first high-throughput search and evaluation of materials that can serve as excellent low-mass dark matter detectors. Using properties of close to one thousand materials from the Materials Project database, we project the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Sinéad M. Griffin , Yonit Hochberg , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Rotem Ovadia , Kristin A. Persson , Bethany A. Suter , Ruo Xi Yang , Wayne Zhao

The comparison of the results of direct detection of Dark Matter, obtained with various target nuclei, requires model-dependent, or even arbitrary, assumptions. Indeed, to draw conclusions either the spin-dependent (SD) or the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-02 Q. Riffard , F. Mayet , G. Bélanger , M. -H. Genest , D. Santos

We develop a framework for computing light dark matter direct detection rates through single phonon and magnon excitations via general effective operators. Our work generalizes previous calculations focused on spin-independent interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek