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The lightest neutralino, assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle, is proposed to be a dark matter (DM) candidate for the mass $\cal{O}$(100) GeV. Constraints from various direct dark matter detection experiments and Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Monoranjan Guchait , Arnab Roy , Seema Sharma

Thermal relics lighter than an MeV contribute to the energy density of the universe at the time of nucleosynthesis and recombination. Constraints on extra radiation degrees of freedom typically exclude even the simplest of such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Asher Berlin , Nikita Blinov

We study the phenomenology of neutralino dark matter within generic supersymmetric scenarios where the Gaugino and Higgsino masses are much lighter than the scalar soft breaking masses (Split Supersymmetry). We consider a low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Masiero , Stefano Profumo , Piero Ullio

We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

The singlet scalar dark matter (DM) model is a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM). This model features only two free parameters: the singlet scalar mass $m_S$ and the quartic coupling $a_2$ between the singlet scalar and the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Yang Yu , Tian-Peng Tang , Lei Feng

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis of its impact, incorporating recent constraints from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci , Ariane Dekker

We study a minimal model with an imposed $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry incorporating two singlet fermions and a singlet scalar which communicate with the SM particles through a scalar-Higgs portal. We probe regions in the parameter space where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Karim Ghorbani

We present an effective field theory describing the relevant interactions of the Standard Model with an electrically neutral particle that can account for the dark matter in the Universe. The possible mediators of these interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Juan Carlos Criado , Abdelhak Djouadi , Manuel Perez-Victoria , Jose Santiago

We study the prospect of simultaneous explanation of tiny neutrino masses, dark matter (DM), and the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe in a $Z_3$-symmetric complex singlet scalar extended type-II seesaw model. The complex singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Purusottam Ghosh , Tathagata Ghosh , Subhojit Roy

We address the direct detection of neutralino dark matter in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We conduct a detailed analysis of the parameter space, taking into account all the available constraints from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Ana M. Teixeira

We study the reach of direct detection experiments for large bound states (containing $10^4$ or more dark nucleons) of Asymmetric Dark Matter. We consider ordinary nuclear recoils, excitation of collective modes (phonons), and electronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Ahmet Coskuner , Dorota M. Grabowska , Simon Knapen , Kathryn M. Zurek

Self-interacting dark matter models constitute an attractive solution to problems in structure formation on small scales. A simple realization of these models considers the dark force mediated by a light particle which can couple to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Denis S. Robertson , Ivone F. M. Albuquerque

The model of radiative neutrino mass with dark matter proposed by one of us is extended to include a real singlet scalar field. There are then two important new consequences. One is the realistic possibility of having the lightest neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. S. Babu , Ernest Ma

We present an undated comprehensive analysis for the simplest dark matter model in which a real singlet scalar with a $Z_2$ symmetry is introduced to extend the standard model. According to the observed dark matter abundance, we predict the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-17 Wan-Lei Guo , Yue-Liang Wu

Direct detection experiments aimed at uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter (DM) have made significant progress in probing ever lower cross-sections for DM-nucleon interactions. At the same time, an upper limit in the cross-section…

We investigate the influence of the reheating temperature of the visible sector on the freeze-in dark matter (DM) benchmark model for direct detection experiments, where DM production is mediated by an ultralight dark photon. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Kimberly K. Boddy , Katherine Freese , Gabriele Montefalcone , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

We investigate the sensitivity to weakly interacting scalar dark matter from future determination of electroweak oblique parameters in the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) project. As illuminating examples, three dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-19 Chengfeng Cai , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao Zhang

We consider a Dark Matter candidate particle of spin 3/2 with neutrino-like Standard Model strength interactions. In the Majorana case, the particle can account for all of the Dark Matter for a range of masses between 70-160 GeV, depending…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Konstantin G. Savvidy , J. D. Vergados

Conventional dark matter direct detection experiments set stringent constraints on dark matter by looking for elastic scattering events between dark matter particles and nuclei in underground detectors. However these constraints weaken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Timon Emken , Chris Kouvaris

The set of sum rules for a wide class of nonminimal Higgs models has been obtained. Difficulties and ways for revealing the possibilities of studying extended Higgs models at colliders have been revealed with the use of these sum rules and…

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