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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

Collider searches for long-lived particles yield a promising avenue to probe the freeze-in production of Dark Matter via the decay of a parent particle. We analyze the prospects of probing the parameter space of Dark Matter freeze-in from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Jose Miguel No , Patrick Tunney , Bryan Zaldivar

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

New physics close to the electroweak scale is well motivated by a number of theoretical arguments. However, colliders, most notably the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have failed to deliver evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. One…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Sebastian Baum , Pearl Sandick , Patrick Stengel

In this study, the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to WIMP dark matter is evaluated assuming WIMP pair production accompanied by a photon from initial state radiation, through which the process can be identified. A full detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-06 Moritz Habermehl , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

We propose a search strategy using the LHC as a photon collider to open sensitivity to scalar lepton (slepton $\tilde{\ell}$) production with masses around 15 to 60 GeV above that of neutralino dark matter $\tilde{\chi}^0_1$. This region is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 Lydia Beresford , Jesse Liu

Dark matter direct detection experiments involving electron recoils are beginning to test highly-predictive, thermal-relic milestones for sub-GeV dark matter models. Due to the Lee-Weinberg bound, thermal dark matter candidates in this mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Xu Han , Gordan Krnjaic

We propose a new beam dump experiment at a future TeV-scale muon collider. A beam dump would be an economical and effective way to increase the discovery potential of the collider complex in a complementary regime. In this work we consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Cari Cesarotti , Samuel Homiller , Rashmish K. Mishra , Matthew Reece

Extensions of the Standard Model featuring light vector bosons have been explored with the goal of resolving certain tensions between theory and experiment, among them the discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $\Delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 A. Goudelis , J. Kriewald , E. Pinsard , A. M. Teixeira

New gauge symmetries often appear in theories beyond the Standard Model. Here we study a model where lepton number is promoted to a gauge symmetry. Anomaly cancellation requires the introduction of additional leptons, the lightest of which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-28 Eric Madge , Pedro Schwaller

We explore the potential for detecting the inelastic dark model (DM) with an additional $U(1)_D$ gauge symmetry at various types of lepton colliders. The new gauge boson $Z'$ resulting from the spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_D$ can act as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Wei Liu , Jin Sun

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 investigate the scenario where the dark matter only interacts with the charged leptons in the standard model via a neutral vector mediator $Z'$. Such a scenario with a 430 GeV dark matter can fit the recent positron fluxes observed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-05 Ning Chen , Jian Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

The last energy-frontier lepton collider, LEP, established several limits that still hold today. A key one is the counting of three light neutrino species from the invisible decay width of the Z boson. From a collider calorimetry…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-19 Wonyong Chung

In this paper, we introduce a novel program of fixed-target searches for thermal-origin Dark Matter (DM), which couples inelastically to the Standard Model. Since the DM only interacts by transitioning to a heavier state, freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-05 Eder Izaguirre , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Matthew Moschella

Dark photons are predicted by various new physics models, and are being intensively studied in a variety of experiments. In the first part of this paper, we obtain partial wave unitarity constraints on the dark photon parameter space from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Any form of dark matter which was in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model in the early Universe must have some annihilation mechanism in order to avoid overclosure. In general, such models are now constrained by the negative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-12 Matthew R. Buckley , David Feld

Dark matter (DM) genesis via Ultraviolet (UV) freeze-in embeds the seed of reheating temperature and dynamics in its relic density. Thus, discovery of such a DM candidate can possibly open the window for post-inflationary dynamics. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Basabendu Barman , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Dipankar Pradhan , Abhik Sarkar

The complementarity between dark matter searches at colliders and in underground laboratories is an extraordinarily powerful tool in the quest for dark matter. In the vast majority of the analyses conducted so far these dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-24 Giorgio Arcadi , Riccardo Catena , Piero Ullio

Extending the Standard Model (SM) with sterile ('right-handed') neutrinos is one of the best motivated ways to account for the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the expected sensitivity of future lepton collider experiments for probing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-11 Stefan Antusch , Oliver Fischer