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We study the phenomenology and detection prospects of a sub-GeV Dirac dark matter candidate with resonantly enhanced annihilations via a dark photon mediator. The model evades cosmological constraints on light thermal particles in the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-23 Elias Bernreuther , Saniya Heeba , Felix Kahlhoefer

In the first part of this note, we observe that a non-Riemannian piece in the affine connection (a "dark connection") leads to an algebraically determined, conserved, symmetric 2-tensor in the Einstein field equations that is a natural dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-24 Ranit Das , Chethan Krishnan

The axion were proposed as a result to a solution to the Strong CP Problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and is now considered a leading candidate for dark matter. Direct axion dark matter detection experiments are challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Kiara Chantel Ruffin , Gray Rybka

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 suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

We present a new class of direct detection signals; absorption of fermionic dark matter. We enumerate the operators through dimension six which lead to fermionic absorption, study their direct detection prospects, and summarize additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Jeff A. Dror , Gilly Elor , Robert McGehee

Despite compelling arguments that significant discoveries of physics beyond the standard model are likely to be made at the Large Hadron Collider, it remains possible that this machine will make no such discoveries, or will make no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-03 Maria Beltran , Dan Hooper , Edward W. Kolb , Zosia C. Krusberg

We propose a minimal model of a fermionic dark matter with a pseudoscalar mediator and N generation of vector-like quarks. We calculate the relic density and obtain new constraint on the generation of the aforementioned quarks. Concerning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-10 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad , S. Peyman Zakeri

We present a scenario in which a scalar field dark energy is coupled to the trace of the energy momentum tensor of the baryonic matter fields. In the slow-roll regime, this interaction could give rise to the cosmological features of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Alejandro Aviles , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

We introduce a model for matters-genesis in which both the baryonic and dark matter asymmetries originate from a first-order phase transition in a dark sector with an $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge group and minimal matter content. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-10 Eleanor Hall , Thomas Konstandin , Robert McGehee , Hitoshi Murayama

We examine the phenomenology of a simplified model of fermionic dark matter coupled to a light scalar mediator carrying lepton number 2. We find that the mediator can be very light and still consistent with laboratory and cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-29 Arvind Rajaraman , Jordan Smolinsky

In standard cosmology, the growth of structure becomes significant following matter-radiation equality. In non-thermal histories, where an effectively matter-dominated phase occurs due to scalar oscillations prior to Big Bang…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-14 Adrienne L. Erickcek , Kuver Sinha , Scott Watson

We carry out a model independent study of resonant photon scattering off dark matter (DM) particles. The DM particle chi_1 can feature an electric or magnetic transition dipole moment which couples it with photons and a heavier neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

A leading hypothesis for the nature of the elusive dark matter are thermally produced, weakly interacting massive particles that arise in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Their self-annihilation in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Torsten Bringmann

The axion is particularly well motivated candidate for the dark matter comprising most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. As is well known, resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Ang Liu , Bilal Ahmad , Nick Houston

The dark matter annihilation cross section can be amplified by orders of magnitude if the annihilation occurs into a narrow resonance, or if the dark-matter particles experience a long-range force before annihilation (Sommerfeld effect). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 Martin Beneke , Stefan Lederer , Kai Urban

We study a simple extension of Standard Model where the gauge group is extended by an additional $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry. Neutrino mass arise both at tree level as well as radiatively by the anomaly free addition of one singlet fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-07 Debasish Borah , Rathin Adhikari

Extra dimensions can be very useful tools when constructing new physics models. Previously, we began investigating toy models for the 5-D analog of the kinetic mixing/vector portal scenario where the interactions of bulk dark matter with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Thomas G. Rizzo

The original mimetic model was proposed to take the role of dark matter. In this paper we consider possible direct interactions of the mimetic dark matter with other matter in the universe, especially the standard model particles such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 Liuyuan Shen , Yicen Mou , Yunlong Zheng , Mingzhe Li

We investigate the predictions of anomaly-free dark matter models for direct and indirect detection experiments. We focus on gauge theories where the existence of a fermionic dark matter candidate is predicted by anomaly cancellation, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Elliot Golias , Rui-Hao Li , Clara Murgui , Alexis D. Plascencia