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In many Dark Matter (DM) scenarios, the annihilation of DM particles can produce gamma rays with a continuum spectrum that extends up to very high energies of the order of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale (hundreds of GeV).…

We present a new analysis of previously published of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood framework to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles through two inelastic scattering channels: bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-10 M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. Alonso , D. W. P. Amaral , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , S. Banik , C. Bathurst , R. Bhattacharyya , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , J. Corbett , P. Cushman , S. Das , F. De Brienne , M. Rios , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , M. Elwan , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , C. W. Fink , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , N. Hassan , B. A. Hines , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , V. K. S. Kashyap , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , M. Lee , A. Li , M. Litke , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , É. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , B. Mohanty , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , W. A. Page , S. Pandey , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , L. Perna , R. Podviianiuk , F. Ponce , S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , T. Saab , D. Sadek , B. Sadoulet , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , S. S. Poudel , D. J. Sincavage , P. Sinervo , J. Street , H. Sun , G. D. Terry , F. K. Thasrawala , D. Toback , R. Underwood , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , C. -P. Wu , K. Wykoff , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , A. Zuniga

The presence of dark matter (DM) is suggested by a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological measurements. However, its underlying nature is yet unknown. Among the most promising candidates are weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs):…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Montanari , E. Moulin , D. Malyshev

Thermal relic dark matter below $\sim 10 \ \text{GeV}$ is excluded by cosmic microwave background data if its annihilation to visible particles is unsuppressed near the epoch of recombination. Usual model-building measures to avoid this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Asher Berlin , Gordan Krnjaic , Elena Pinetti

Due to the low nuclear recoils, sub-GeV dark matter (DM) is usually beyond the sensitivity of the conventional DM direct detection experiments. The boosted and Migdal scattering mechanisms have been proposed as two new complementary avenues…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Victor V. Flambaum , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Here we briefly review possible indirect effects of dark matter (DM) of the Universe. It includes effects in cosmic rays (CR): first of all, the positron excess at $\sim$ 500 GeV and possible electron-positron excess at 1-1.5 TeV. We tell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 K. M. Belotsky , E. A. Esipova , A. Kh. Kamaletdinov , E. S. Shlepkina , M. L. Solovyov

Dark matter (DM) could be a relic of freeze-in through a light mediator, where the DM is produced by extremely feeble, IR-dominated processes in the thermal Standard Model plasma. In the simplest viable models with the DM mass below the MeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

The direct searches for Superymmetry at colliders can be complemented by direct searches for dark matter (DM) in underground experiments, if one assumes the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) provides the dark matter of the universe. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Beskidt , W. de Boer , D. I. Kazakov , F. Ratnikov

We investigate the prospects of indirect and direct dark matter searches within the minimal supersymmetric standard model with nine parameters (MSSM-9). These nine parameters include three gaugino masses, Higgs, slepton and squark masses,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Maria Eugenia Cabrera Catalan , Shin'ichiro Ando , Christoph Weniger , Fabio Zandanel

We initiate the study of novel thermal dark matter (DM) scenarios where present-day annihilation of DM in the galactic center produces boosted stable particles in the dark sector. These stable particles are typically a subdominant DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kaustubh Agashe , Yanou Cui , Lina Necib , Jesse Thaler

In recent years, direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments have placed increasingly stringent constraints on particle dark matter, exploring much of the parameter space associated with the WIMP paradigm. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Miguel Escudero , Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Meng-Xiang Lin

Low energy antideuteron detection presents a unique channel for indirect detection, targeting dark matter that annihilates into hadrons in a relatively background-free way. Since the idea was first proposed, many WIMP-type models have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Lisa Randall , Weishuang Linda Xu

The search for Dark Matter (DM) has great potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, searches for evidence of DM particles are being carried out using a wide range of techniques, such as direct searches for DM…

MeV particles have been advocated as Dark Matter (DM) candidates in different contexts. This hypothesis can be tested indirectly by searching for the Standard Model (SM) products of DM self-annihilations. As the signal from DM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

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

Some direct detection experiments have recently collected excess events that could be interpreted as a dark matter (DM) signal, pointing to particles in the $\sim$10 GeV mass range. We show that scenarios in which DM can self-annihilate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Julien Lavalle

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

Dark Matter (DM) residing in a secluded sector with suppressed portal interaction could evade direct detections and collider searches. The indirect detections provide the most robust probe to this scenario. Depending on the structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-14 Jinmian Li , Takaaki Nomura , Junle Pei , Xiangwei Yin , Cong Zhang

Motivated by the current strong constraints on the spin-independent dark matter (DM)-nucleus scattering, we investigate the spin-dependent (SD) interactions of the light Majorana DM with the nucleus mediated by an axial-vector boson. Due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Wenyu Wang , Ke-Yun Wu , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles produced via thermal freeze-out evade many of the strong constraints on heavier DM candidates but at the same time face a multitude of new constraints from laboratory experiments, astrophysical…