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We propose a dark matter (DM) model with a complex scalar charged under a hidden gauge symmetry, denoted as $U(1)_D$. The scalar field is the DM candidate while the $U(1)_D$ gauge field $A'$ plays the role of a mediator, which connects the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Yu-Hang Su , Chengfeng Cai , Hong-Hao Zhang

Many models of Higgs portal Dark Matter (DM) find themselves under pressure from increasingly tight direct detection constraints. In the framework of gauge field DM, we study how such bounds can be relaxed while retaining the thermal WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-28 Giorgio Arcadi , Christian Gross , Oleg Lebedev , Stefan Pokorski , Takashi Toma

We explore a fermionic dark matter model with a possible extension of Standard Model (SM) of particle physics into two Higgs doublet model. Higgs doublets couple to the singlet fermionic dark matter (FDM) through a non renormalisable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Amit Dutta Banik , Debasish Majumdar

Many minimal models of dark matter (DM) or canonical solutions to the hierarchy problem are either excluded or severely constrained by LHC and direct detection null results. In particular, Higgs Portal Dark Matter (HPDM) features a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-10 David Curtin , Shayne Gryba

We investigate dark matter (DM) phenomenology and cosmic inflation within a unified framework based on a dark $U(1)_D$ gauge extension of the Standard Model (SM). The associated dark gauge boson, namely the dark photon, serves as a viable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Sarif Khan , Jinsu Kim , Pyungwon Ko

In these proceedings we review the interplay between LHC searches for dark matter and direct detection experiments. For this purpose we consider two prime examples: the effective field theory (EFT) approach and the minimal supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-12 Andreas Crivellin , Martin Hoferichter , Massimiliano Procura , Lewis C. Tunstall

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with a light mediator is a promising scenario to alleviate the small-scale problems of the cold dark matter paradigm while being consistent with the latter at large scales, as suggested by astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Debasish Borah , Manoranjan Dutta , Satyabrata Mahapatra , Narendra Sahu

If a subdominant component of dark matter (DM) interacts via long-range dark force carriers it may cool and collapse to form complex structures within the Milky Way galaxy, such as a rotating dark disk. This scenario was proposed recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthew McCullough , Lisa Randall

Dark matter could emerge along with the Higgs as a composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson $\chi$ with decay constant $f\sim \mathrm{TeV}$. This type of WIMP is especially compelling because its leading interaction with the Standard Model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-20 Reuven Balkin , Maximilian Ruhdorfer , Ennio Salvioni , Andreas Weiler

We present a study of singlet-doublet vector-like leptonic dark matter (DM) in the framework of two Higgs doublet model (2HDM), where the dark sector is comprised of one doublet and one singlet vectorlike fermions (VLFs). The DM, that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-01 Basabendu Barman , Amit Dutta Banik , Avik Paul

We perform an analysis of Higgs portal models of dark matter (DM), where DM is light enough to contribute to invisible Higgs decays. Using effective field theory we show that DM can be a thermal relic only if there are additional light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-09 Admir Greljo , J. Julio , Jernej F. Kamenik , Christopher Smith , Jure Zupan

Astrophysical and cosmological observations strongly suggest the existence of Dark Matter\,(DM). Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider\,(LHC) have the potential to probe the particle nature of the DM. In the present work, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Sweta Baradia , Sanchari Bhattacharyya , Anindya Datta , Suchandra Dutta , Suvankar Roy Chowdhury , Subir Sarkar

We consider the doublet-triplet fermionic model in the scheme of the custodial limit when the dark matter (DM) candidate is pure doublet and lies at the electroweak scale. This scheme, despite being an appealing and promising DM model, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-12 Amalia Betancur , Óscar Zapata

As experimental searches for WIMP dark matter continue to yield null results, models beyond the WIMP paradigm have proliferated in order to elude ever improving observational constraints, among them that of sub-GeV dark matter mediated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 George N. Wojcik , Thomas G. Rizzo

With the assistance of two extra groups, i.e., an extra hidden gauge group $SU(2)_D$ and a global $U(1)$ group, we propose a two component dark matter (DM) model. After the symmetry $SU(2)_D\times U(1)$ being broken, we obtain both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Ligong Bian , Tianjun Li , Jing Shu , Xiao-Chuan Wang

We explore a scenario where Dark Matter (DM) couples to the Standard Model mainly via a scalar mediator ${\cal S}$ that is odd under a $Z_2$ symmetry, leading to interesting collider signatures. In fact, if linear interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Florian Goertz , Karla Tame-Narvaez , Valentin Tenorth

We present a comprehensive study of secluded dark matter (DM) $\chi$, where the relic abundance is set by annihilations into lighter dark mediators $\phi$ that couple only feebly to the Standard Model (SM). In contrast to canonical WIMPs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Mattia Di Mauro , Yanhan Wang

We formulate an effective field theory (EFT) of coupled dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interacting through energy and momentum transfers. In the DE sector, we exploit the EFT of vector-tensor theories with the presence of a preferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Katsuki Aoki , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Shinji Tsujikawa

We provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the prospects to realize Dark Matter (DM) in the Inert Doublet Model, while simultaneously enhancing the Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPhT) such as to allow for electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Sven Fabian , Florian Goertz , Yun Jiang

Direct detection of and LHC search for the singlet fermion dark matter (SFDM) model with Higgs portal interaction are considered in a renormalizable model where the full Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry is imposed by introducing a singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 Seungwon Baek , P. Ko , Myeonghun Park , Wan-Il Park , Chaehyun Yu