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If dark matter (DM) particles are lighter than a few MeV/$c^2$ and can scatter off electrons, their interaction within the solar interior results in a considerable hardening of the spectrum of galactic dark matter received on Earth. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

In recent years, a growing experimental program has begun to search for sub-GeV dark matter through its scattering with electrons. An associated theoretical challenge is to compute the dark matter scattering rate in experimental targets,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Robert Lasenby , Anirudh Prabhu

Monte Carlo simulations of systems of particles such as hard spheres or soft spheres with singular kernels can display around a phase transition prohibitively long convergence times when using traditional Hasting-Metropolis reversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Athina Monemvassitis , Arnaud Guillin , Manon Michel

Millicharged particles are generic in theories of dark sectors. A cosmic or local abundance of them may be produced by the early universe, stellar environments, or the decay or annihilation of dark matter/dark energy. Furthermore, if such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Asher Berlin , Surjeet Rajendran , Harikrishnan Ramani , Erwin H. Tanin

We study the complementarity between dark matter experiments (direct detection and indirect detections) and accelerator facilities (the CERN LHC and a $\sqrt{s}= 1$ TeV $e^+e^-$ Linear Collider) in the framework of the constrained Minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Mambrini , E. Nezri

For the search for electroweak (EW) particles in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as for future precision analyses of these particles an accurate knowledge of their production and decay properties is mandatory. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-12 S. Heinemeyer , C. Schappacher

Dark matter (DM) could couple to particles in the Standard Model (SM) through a light vector mediator. In the limit of small coupling, this portal could be responsible for producing the observed DM abundance through a mechanism known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

We study the possibility to populate the dark sector through a phase transition. We will consider secluded dark sectors made of gauge theories, Randall-Sundrum scenarios and conformally coupled elementary particles. These sectors have in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-06 Michele Redi , Andrea Tesi

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

We consider the production of a "fast flux" of hypothetical millicharged particles (mCPs) in the interstellar medium (ISM). We consider two possible sources induced by cosmic rays: (a) $pp\rightarrow$(meson)$\rightarrow$(mCP) which adds to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Roni Harnik , Ryan Plestid , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani

We build an emulator based on the polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) technique to efficiently model the non-linear effects associated with the clustering of the $k$-essence dark energy in the effective field theory (EFT) framework. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 A. R. Nouri-Zonoz , F. Hassani , M. Kunz

Dark sector models present a rich phenomenology that requires high-intensity beams and precision detectors for thorough exploration. The NA62 experiment has already published several constraints on dark sector models, leveraging proton beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 F. Arias-Aragón , L. Darmé , R. Gargiulo , G. Grilli di Cortona , V. Kozhuharov , E. Nardi , M. Raggi , T. Spadaro , P. Valente

We analyse here some programming tools (MC-generators) from viewpoint of their application to the tasks of dark matter (DM) interpretation of cosmic rays puzzles. We shortly describe our tasks, where the main goal is the solution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-02 K. M. Belotsky , A. H. Kamaletdinov , E. S. Shlepkina

If dark matter inhabits an expanded "hidden sector", annihilations may proceed through sequential decays or multi-body final states. We map out the potential signals and current constraints on such a framework in indirect searches, using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-05 Gilly Elor , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer , Wei Xue

Pseudoscalar mesons can be produced and studied in high-energy electron-nucleus scattering. We review and extend our previous analysis of meson production in the nuclear Coulomb field. The $P\rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ decay rates are most…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Göran Fäldt

The crucial role that Ions Energy Distribution Function (IEDF) at the electrodes plays in plasma processing of semiconductor materials demands that this quantity be predicted with high accuracy and with low noise levels in any plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ardehali

The reported excess of $\gamma$-rays, emitted from an extended region around the galactic center, has a distribution and rate suggestive of an origin in dark matter (DM) annihilations. The conventional annihilation channels into standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Marat Freytsis , Dean J. Robinson , Yuhsin Tsai

Deep observations of galaxy outskirts reveal faint extended stellar components (ESCs) of streams, shells, and halos, which are ghostly remnants of the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. We use cosmological galaxy formation simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Chris Power

This paper presents a simulation-based framework for sequential inference from partially and discretely observed point process (PP's) models with static parameters. Taking on a Bayesian perspective for the static parameters, we build upon…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-24 James S. Martin , Ajay Jasra , Emma McCoy

As any $e^+e^-$ scattering process can be accompanied by a hard photon emission from the initial state radiation, the analysis of the energy spectrum and angular distributions of those photons can be used to search for hard processes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Jan Kalinowski , Wojciech Kotlarski , Krzysztof Mekala , Pawel Sopicki , Aleksander Filip Zarnecki