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We present a comprehensive study of the Muonic Portal to Vector Dark Matter (MPVDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model featuring a new $SU(2)_D$ gauge symmetry and vector-like muons that mediate interactions between the dark sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Alexander Belyaev , Luca Panizzi , Nakorn Thongyoi , Franz Wilhelm

We studied Dark Matter (DM) phenomenology with multiple DM species consisting of both scalar and vector DM particles in the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model of Arcadi et al. Because of the large parameter space in the Hidden Gauged SU(3) model we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Stephen Godfrey , Alexandre Poulin

Within the framework of the extra-dimensional Randall-Sundrum set-up, we investigate the freeze-in production of Standard Model (SM) gauge-singlet scalar, fermionic, and massive vector dark matter (DM). Assuming that both the DM and SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Basabendu Barman , Ashmita Das , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu , Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar

We propose a simplified model of dark matter with a scalar mediator to accommodate the di-photon excess recently observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Decays of the resonance into dark matter can easily account for a relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Mihailo Backovic , Alberto Mariotti , Diego Redigolo

Fermion dark matter (DM) as an admixture of additional singlet and doublet vector like fermions provides an attractive and allowed framework by relic density and direct search constraints within TeV scale, although limited by its discovery…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Basabendu Barman , Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Purusottam Ghosh , Saurabh Kadam , Narendra Sahu

Models of inelastic (or pseudo-Dirac) dark matter commonly assume an accidental symmetry between the left-handed and right-handed mass terms in order to suppress diagonal couplings. We point out that this symmetry is unnecessary, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Felix Kahlhoefer , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Thomas Schwetz

We study the dark matter (DM) direct detection for the models with the effects of the isospin-violating couplings, exothermic scatterings, and/or the lightness of the mediator, proposed to relax the tension between the CDMS-Si signals and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Chun-Hao Lee , Qing Wang

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. The aim of this paper is to determine whether…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Celine Boehm , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

Direct detection experiments relying on nuclear recoil signatures lose sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter for typical galactic velocities. This sensitivity is recovered if there exists another source of flux with higher momenta. Such an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-03 James Alvey , Miguel Campos , Malcolm Fairbairn , Tevong You

The recent observation of an excess in the electronic recoil data by the XENON1T detector has drawn many attentions as a potential hint for an extension of the Standard Model (SM). Absorption of a vector boson with the mass of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-08 Gongjun Choi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida , Norimi Yokozaki

Non-baryonic, or "dark," matter is believed to be a major component of the total mass budget of the universe. We review the candidates for particle dark matter and discuss the prospects for direct detection (via interaction of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , David Merritt

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

It is a distinct possibility that a Hidden Valley sector would have a spectrum of light particles consisting of both stable and unstable dark mesons. The simultaneous presence of these two types of particles can lead to novel mechanisms for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-07 Hugues Beauchesne , Enrico Bertuzzo , Giovanni Grilli di Cortona

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 nature of dark matter is one of the most thrilling riddles for both cosmology and particle physics nowadays. While in the typical models the dark sector is composed only by weakly interacting massive particles, an arguably more natural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Urbano Franca , Roberto A. Lineros , Joaquim Palacio , Sergio Pastor

We comprehensively study experimental constraints and prospects for a class of minimal hidden sector dark matter (DM) models, highlighting how the cosmological history of these models informs the experimental signals. We study simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Jared A. Evans , Stefania Gori , Jessie Shelton

We study a simple model of vector dark matter that couples to Standard Model particles via magnetic dipole interactions. In this scenario, the cosmological abundance arises through the freeze-in mechanism and depends on the dipole coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-14 Gordan Krnjaic , Duncan Rocha , Anastasia Sokolenko

Recent results from several direct detection experiments have imposed severe constraints on the multi-GeV mass window for various dark matter (DM) models. However, many of these experiments are not sensitive to MeV scale DM as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Debajyoti Choudhury , Divya Sachdeva

We investigate the possible presence of dark matter (DM) in massive and rotating neutron stars (NSs). For the purpose we extend our previous work [1] to introduce a light new physics vector mediator besides a scalar one in order to ensure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen