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Despite the robust cosmological and astrophysical evidence confirming the existence of a non-baryonic matter component in the Universe, the underlying nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains a mystery. Among the several possible scenarios, light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 Ana Luisa Foguel , Peter Reimitz , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

We consider a fermionic dark matter candidate interacting via a scalar mediator coupled with the Standard Model through a Higgs portal. We consider general setting including both scalar and pseudoscalar interactions between the scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Kimmo Kainulainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

We study a scenario in which the dilaton, a pseudo-Goldstone boson of the spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry, provides a portal between dark matter and the visible sector. We consider the low-energy description of the theory in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Aielet Efrati , Eric Kuflik , Shmuel Nussinov , Yotam Soreq , Tomer Volansky

We propose a renormalizable dark matter model in which a fermionic dark matter (DM) candidate communicates with the standard model particles through two distinct portals: Higgs and vector portals. The dark sector is charged under a $U(1)'$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Karim Ghorbani , Hossein Ghorbani

The persistent absence of signals in traditional dark matter searches has intensified interest in scenarios beyond the canonical weakly interacting massive particle paradigm. In this work, we investigate the collider phenomenology of feebly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-06 Junzhe Liu , Alfredo Gurrola

We present a new model of "Stealth Dark Matter": a composite baryonic scalar of an $SU(N_D)$ strongly-coupled theory with even $N_D \geq 4$. All mass scales are technically natural, and dark matter stability is automatic without imposing an…

The Lepton Portal Dark Matter model, in which dark matter states only coupling to the charged leptons, can explain the excess of the muon anomalous magnetic moment measured by the Muon $g - 2$ experiment. In this paper, we demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

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

The proposed DarkQuest beam dump experiment, a modest upgrade to the existing SeaQuest/SpinQuest experiment, has great potential for uncovering new physics within a dark sector. We explore both the near-term and long-term prospects for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Brian Batell , Jared A. Evans , Stefania Gori , Mudit Rai

Some extensions of the Standard Model consider inelastic dark matter (iDM) as an attractive candidate for sub-GeV DM of thermal origin that could be detected at modern accelerators. In the present paper, we calculate the production rate of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Sergei N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , I. V. Voronchikhin , D. V. Kirpichnikov

Searching for dark matter (DM) at colliders is one of the biggest challenges in high-energy physics today. Significant efforts have been made to detect DM within the mass range of 1-10,000 GeV at the Large Hadron Collider and other…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-17 Tamas Almos Vami

We consider a dark sector model containing stable fermions charged under an unbroken $U(1)$ gauge interaction, with a massless dark photon as force carrier, and interacting with ordinary matter via scalar messengers. We study its early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Jan Tristram Acuña , Marco Fabbrichesi , Piero Ullio

We consider the possible existence of a SM-neutral and light dark sector coupled to the visible sector through irrelevant portal interactions. Scenarios of this kind are motivated by dark matter and arise in various extensions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Roberto Contino , Kevin Max , Rashmish K. Mishra

This Letter proposes a new search for confining dark sectors at the Large Hadron Collider. As a result of the strong dynamics in the hidden sector, dark matter could manifest in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Cesare Cazzaniga , Annapaola de Cosa

We explore the possibility that dark matter interactions with Standard Model particles are dominated by interactions with neutrinos. We examine whether it is possible to construct such a scenario in a gauge invariant manner. We first study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-01 M. Blennow , E. Fernandez-Martinez , A. Olivares-Del Campo , S. Pascoli , S. Rosauro-Alcaraz , A. V. Titov

We propose a new method to detect sub-GeV dark matter, through their scatterings from free leptons and the resulting kinematic shifts. Specially, such an experiment can detect dark matter interacting solely with muons. The experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Alim Ruzi , Chen Zhou , Xiaohu Sun , Dayong Wang , Siguang Wang , Yong Ban , Yajun Mao , Qite Li , Qiang Li

We analyze the sensitivity of fixed-target experiments to sub-GeV thermal relic dark matter models, accounting for variations in both mediator and dark matter mass, and including dark matter production through both on- and off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Asher Berlin , Patrick deNiverville , Adam Ritz , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We combine and extend the analyses of effective scalar, vector, Majorana and Dirac fermion Higgs portal models of dark matter (DM), in which DM couples to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson via an operator of the form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 Ankit Beniwal , Filip Rajec , Christopher Savage , Pat Scott , Christoph Weniger , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

Dark Matter can interact with electroweak gauge bosons via higher-dimensional operators, in spite of being neutral under gauge interactions, much like neutral atoms interact with photons through Rayleigh scattering. This study explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Daniele Barducci , Dario Buttazzo , Alessandro Dondarini , Roberto Franceschini , Giulio Marino , Federico Mescia , Paolo Panci

We explore scalar dark matter that is part of a lepton flavor triplet satisfying symmetry requirements under the hypothesis of minimal flavor violation. Beyond the standard model, the theory contains in addition three right-handed neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-06 Chao-Jung Lee , Jusak Tandean