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The interactions of dark matter (DM) with the visible sector are often phenomenologically described in the framework of simplified models where the couplings of quarks to the new particles are generally assumed to be universal or have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Giorgio Arcadi , Davide Meloni , Martin B. Krauss

We discuss a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) that provides an explicit realization of the dark-matter (DM) neutrino-portal paradigm. The dark sector is composed of a scalar $ \Phi $ and a Dirac fermion $ \Psi $, with the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Vannia González-Macías , José I. Illana , José Wudka

In face of the small-scale structure problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM) paradigm, a popular remedy is to introduce a strong DM self-interaction which can be generated nonperturbatively by a MeV-scale light mediator.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Mateusz Duch , Bohdan Grzadkowski , Da Huang

We consider models where a massive spin-two resonance acts as the mediator between Dark Matter (DM) and the SM particles through the energy-momentum tensor. We examine the effective theory for fermion, vector and scalar DM generated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-08 Alba Carrillo-Monteverde , Yoo-Jin Kang , Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Veronica Sanz

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

We consider the proposal that dark matter (DM) is composed of a spin-3/2 particle that is a singlet of the standard model (SM). Its leading effective interactions with ordinary matter involve a pair of their fields and a pair of SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-31 Ran Ding , Yi Liao , Ji-Yuan Liu , Kai Wang

Dark matter scenarios with spin-0 mediators in the $s$-channel have be tested in well-established processes with missing energy, such as top-pair- and mono-jet-associated production. We suggest electroweak single top production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Tilman Plehn , Jennifer Thompson , Susanne Westhoff

Inspired by the recently new measurement of $(g-2)_{\mu}$ at FermiLab and reported upper bound for electron-dark matter (DM) recoil by the XENON1T collaboration, we revisited phenomenology of a light MeV scale vector dark matter in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

We study an extension of the Standard Model (SM) which could have two candidates for dark matter (DM) including a Dirac fermion and a vector dark matter (VDM) under a new $U(1)$ gauge group in the hidden sector. The model is classically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Mojtaba Hosseini , Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We propose an electroweakly interacting spin-1 dark matter (DM) model. The electroweak gauge symmetry, SU(2)$_L\times$U(1)$_Y$, is extended into SU(2)$_0\times$SU(2)$_1 \times $SU(2)$_2 \times$U(1)$_Y$. A discrete symmetry exchanging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Tomohiro Abe , Motoko Fujiwara , Junji Hisano , Kohei Matsushita

In this work we combine information from relic abundance, direct detection, cosmic microwave background, positron fraction, gamma rays, and colliders to explore the existing constraints on couplings between Dark Matter and Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Mattias Blennow , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Pedro A. N. Machado , Bryan Zaldivar

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

The particle-physics nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the central open questions in modern physics. A widely used framework to investigate DM properties is provided by simplified models (DMSimps), which extend the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Mattia Di Mauro , Bohan Xie

The connection between Standard Model (SM) particles and dark matter (DM) can be introduced via hidden spin-2 massive mediator. In the present paper we consider the simplified benchmark link between charged lepton sector of SM and DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 I. V. Voronchikhin , D. V. Kirpichnikov

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

We revisit the phenomenology of dark-matter (DM) scenarios within radius-stabilized Randall-Sundrum models. Specifically, we consider models where the dark matter candidates are Standard Model (SM) singlets confined to the TeV brane and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 R. Sekhar Chivukula , Joshua A. Gill , Kirtimaan A. Mohan , George Sanamyan , Dipan Sengupta , Elizabeth H. Simmons , Xing Wang

We present a model for dark matter with extra spatial dimensions in which Standard-Model (SM) fermions have localized wave functions. The underlying gauge group is $G_{\rm SM} \otimes {\rm U}(1)_z$, and the dark matter particle is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Girmohanta , R. Shrock

We consider a simple extension of the standard model with fermionic dark matter (DM) and a $Z'$ gauge boson acting as a mediator. We also assume a scenario where cosmic reheating occurs at low temperatures due to the decay of a massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Geneviève Bélanger , Nicolás Bernal , Alexander Pukhov

We study the collider phenomenology of dark matter pair production at the LHC in simplified dark matter models and in the MSSM. Among the large space of dark matter models, we focus on two particular models where a fermionic dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Christoph Borschensky , Gabriele Coniglio , Barbara Jäger