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We investigate the role of an axion-like particle (ALP) as a portal between the dark and visible sectors. Unlike conventional studies, which typically assume fermionic dark matter (DM), we explore the phenomenological implications of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Francesco D'Eramo , Tommaso Sassi

We investigate a scenario where Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP) dark matter interacts with an axion-like particle (ALP) that couples exclusively to electrons. This minimal setup provides interactions which enforce thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Vincenzo Fiorentino , Ji-Heng Guo , Giacomo Landini , Federico Mescia

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising candidates for mediating interactions between a dark sector and the Standard Model (SM). In this work, considering the effective interactions of ALPs with the SM gauge bosons and a fermion dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Soumen Kumar Manna , Arunansu Sil

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

We propose a new scenario of using the dark axion portal at one-loop level to explain the recently observed muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment. Both axion/axion-like particle (ALP) and dark photon are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-01 Shao-Feng Ge , Xiao-Dong Ma , Pedro Pasquini

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are good candidates for mediators to the dark sector. We explore scenarios in which an ALP mediates interactions between dark matter and electroweak gauge bosons. These models yield testable electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Stephanie Allen , Albany Blackburn , Oswaldo Cardenas , Zoe Messenger , Ngan H. Nguyen , Brian Shuve

We propose a novel class of Dark Matter (DM) candidates in the form of a heavy composite Axion-Like Particle (ALP) with highly suppressed electromagnetic interactions populating vast yet unexplored domains in the ALP parameter space. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Pierluca Carenza , Roman Pasechnik , Zhi-Wei Wang

The Lepton Portal Dark Matter model, in which dark matter states only coupling to the charged leptons, can explain the excess of the muon anomalous magnetic moment measured by the Muon $g - 2$ experiment. In this paper, we demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

The dark axion portal is a dimension-5 coupling between an axion-like particle (ALP), a photon, and a dark photon, which is one of the targets of the intensity frontier searches looking for $\sim\,$sub-GeV long-lived particles (LLPs). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-18 Krzysztof Jodłowski

In this paper, we summarize phenomenology in lepton portal dark matter (DM) models, where DM couples to leptons and extra leptons/sleptons. There are several possible setups: complex/real scalar DM and Dirac/Majorana fermion DM. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Junichiro Kawamura , Shohei Okawa , Yuji Omura

We consider an axion-like particle (ALP) coupled to Standard Model (SM) fermions as a mediator between the SM and a fermionic dark matter (DM) particle. We explore the case where the ALP-SM and/or the ALP-DM couplings are too small to allow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-08 A. Bharucha , F. Brümmer , N. Desai , S. Mutzel

The dynamics and detection possibility of a pseudo-FIMP (pFIMP) dark matter (DM) in the presence of a thermal DM have been studied in different contexts. The pFIMP phenomenology largely depends on the WIMP-like partner DM, as pFIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jayita Lahiri , Dipankar Pradhan , Abhik Sarkar

The paradigm of portal matter represents a well-motivated extension to models with kinetic mixing/vector portal dark matter. In previous work, we constructed a simple leptonic portal matter model in which the portal matter fields could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 George N. Wojcik , Lisa L. Everett , Shu Tian Eu , Ricardo Ximenes

The Belle II collaboration recently reported a $2.7\sigma$ excess in the rare decay $B^\pm \to K^\pm \nu \bar{\nu}$, potentially signaling new physics. We propose an axion-like particle (ALP)-portal dark matter (DM) framework to explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Kewen Ding , Ying Li , Xuewen Liu , Yu Liu , Chih-Ting Lu , Bin Zhu

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

Dark sector may exist and interact with Standard Model (SM) through the $U(1)$ kinetic mixing. Through this portal-type interaction, dark photon from dark sector couples to SM fermions, and may explain the discrepancy between experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Chrisna Setyo Nugroho

We investigate a beyond standard model (SM) portal scenario for dark matter (DM) particle with leptoquark being the mediator field. Leptoquark, a colored particle having both baryon and lepton number, allows the DM to interact with the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-11 Rusa Mandal

The optical dump at the LUXE experiment has the potential to create a large flux of $\mathcal{O}({\rm GeV})$ photons that can be used to look for new physics when directed at a solid material dump. The LUXE-NPOD extension of LUXE, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Noam Ness , Barry Cimring

Axion like particles(ALPs) and right handed neutrinos~(RHNs) are two well-motivated dark matter(DM) candidates. However, these two particles have a completely different origin. Axion was proposed to solve the Strong CP problem, whereas RHNs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-02 Shivam Gola , Sanjoy Mandal , Nita Sinha

Contributions of a spin 0 axion-like particle (ALP) to lepton dipole moments, g-2 and EDMs, are examined. Barr-Zee and light-by-light loop effects from a light pseudoscalar ALP are found to be capable of resolving the long-standing muon g-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 W. J. Marciano , A. Masiero , P. Paradisi , M. Passera
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