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(Ultra)light spin-$1$ particles -- dark photons -- can constitute all of dark matter (DM) and have beyond Standard Model couplings. This can lead to a coherent, oscillatory signature in terrestrial detectors that depends on the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-28 Dorian W. P. Amaral , Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin , Christopher Tunnell

Within the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), we explore a decoupling of the parameters into separate sectors that determine consistency with collider data, the abundance of dark matter, and potential signatures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Pearl Sandick

Indirect detection of dark matter particles, i.e. the detection of annihilation or decay products of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, has entered a pivotal phase as experiments reach sensitivities that probe the most interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-10 Jan Conrad

We introduce a novel logarithmic spectral estimation method for dark matter searches using gravitational-wave detectors, integrating established dark matter search techniques with insights from computer music analysis. By leveraging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Alexandre Göttel , Vivien Raymond

In this report we summarize the many dark matter searches currently being pursued through four complementary approaches: direct detection, indirect detection, collider experiments, and astrophysical probes. The essential features of broad…

Direct detection experiments turn to lose sensitivity of searching for a sub-MeV light dark matter candidate due to the threshold of recoil energy. However, such light dark matter particles can be accelerated by energetic cosmic-rays such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Qing-Hong Cao , Ran Ding , Qian-Fei Xiang

Various methods of searching for supersymmetric dark matter are sensitive to WIMPs with different properties. One consequence of this is that the phenomenology of dark matter detection can vary dramatically in different supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Hooper , Lian-Tao Wang

Low Temperature Detectors (LTDs) offer the best signal-to-noise performance and thus, lowest energy threshold among other particle detection technologies available today. The excellent background rejection provided by these detectors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-02 Nader Mirabolfathi

Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single-electron ionization signals, which are detectable with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-01 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Tomer Volansky

We propose a new strategy to directly detect light particle dark matter that has long-ranged interactions with ordinary matter. The approach involves distorting the local flow of dark matter with time-varying fields and measuring these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Asher Berlin , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

Despite the great success of the Standard Model of particle physics the nature of Dark Matter still remains unclear. Recently, the idea of the existence of a hidden sector coupling only weakly with the ordinary matter was revitalized and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-17 V. Kozhuharov , M. Raggi , P. Valente

Besides Standard Model measurements and other Beyond Standard Model studies, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC will search for Supersymmetry, one of the most attractive explanation for dark matter. The SUSY discovery potential with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-06 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

Dark matter (DM) particles with mass in the sub-GeV range are an attractive alternative to heavier weakly-interacting massive particles, but direct detection of such light particles is challenging. If however DM-nucleus scattering leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Matthew J. Dolan , Felix Kahlhoefer , Christopher McCabe

We use Super-K data to place new strong limits on interactions of sub-GeV Dark Matter (DM) with nuclei, that rely on the DM flux inevitably induced by cosmic-ray upscatterings. We derive analogous sensitivities at Hyper-K and DUNE and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yohei Ema , Filippo Sala , Ryosuke Sato

We review the current status of accelerator, direct and indirect Dark Matter (DM) searches, focusing on the complementarity of different techniques and on the prospects for discovery. After taking a census of present and upcoming DM-related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-31 Gianfranco Bertone

Indirect searches for dark matter (DM) have conventionally been applied to the products of DM annihilation or decay. If DM couples to light force carriers, however, it can be captured into bound states via dissipation of energy that may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Iason Baldes , Francesca Calore , Kalliopi Petraki , Vincent Poireau , Nicholas L. Rodd

Recent searches for dark matter (DM) produced in association with top quarks from the ATLAS and CMS experiments using data collected between 2015 and 2018 are presented. These comprise searches from both experiments for DM in association…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-13 Dominic Stafford

Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Even though it could accommodate to a sizeable background contamination, electron/recoil discrimination remains a key and challenging issue as for direction-insensitive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

We propose a novel dark matter detection scheme by leveraging quantum coherence across a network of multiple quantum sensors. This method effectively eliminates incoherent background noise, thereby significantly enhancing detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-31 Jing Shu , Bin Xu , Yuan Xu