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Automated tools for the computation of particle physics' processes have become the backbone of phenomenological studies beyond the standard model. Here, we present MadDM v3.2. This release enables the fully automated computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Chiara Arina , Jan Heisig , Fabio Maltoni , Daniele Massaro , Olivier Mattelaer

Experimental efforts searching for dark matter particles over the last few decades have ruled out many candidates led by the new generation of tonne-scale liquid xenon. For light dark matter, hydrogen could be a better target than xenon as…

There is currently vast evidence for Dark Matter (DM) from astronomical observations. However, in spite of tremendous efforts by large experimental groups, there is no confirmed direct detection of the dark matter in our galaxy. Recent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan Estrada

Mu3e is an upcoming experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in the search for the strongly suppressed decay of $\mu\rightarrow eee$. It will use an ultra-lightweight silicon pixel detector using thinned HV-CMOS MAPS chips. Multiple Coulomb…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-26 Frank Meier Aeschbacher , Marin Deflorin , Lars Olivier Sebastian Noehte

Transition Edge Sensors (TES) are superconducting microcalorimeters that can be used for single-photon detection with extremely low backgrounds. When they are within their superconducting transition region, small temperature fluctuations -…

Superfluid 3He is an unconventional neutral superfluid in a p-wave state with three different superfluid phases each identified by a unique set of characteristic broken symmetries and non- trivial topology. Despite natural immunity of 3He…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-22 W. P. Halperin

We propose heavy decaying dark matter (DM) as a new probe of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B). Heavy DM, with mass $\gtrsim 10^9$ GeV, decaying into neutrinos can be a new source of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos. Including this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Writasree Maitra , Anna M. Suliga , Vedran Brdar , P. S. Bhupal Dev

The MIMAC project is based on a matrix of Micro Time Projection Chambers (micro-TPC) for Dark Matter search, filled with He3 or CF4 and using ionization and tracks. The first measurement of the energy resolution of this micro-TPC is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Trichet , F. Mayet , O. Guillaudin , D. Santos

SIMPLE (Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLE searches) employs superheated droplet detectors (SDDs) to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. As a result of the intrinsic SDD insensitivity to minimum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. I. Collar , T. A. Girard , D. Limagne , H. S. Miley , T. Morlat , J. Puibasset , G. Waysand

The superheated emulsion detector consisting of the droplets of tetra-fluoroethane (C2HC$_2$H$_2$F$_4$2F4) has been fabricated at the laboratory and installed at the 555m deep underground laboratory, JUSL during July to Dec 2022. The 500ml…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-07 V. Kumar , S. Ali , M. Das , N. Biswas , S. Das , S. Sahoo , N. Chaddha , J. Basu , V. N. Jha

The technique to realize 3D position sensitivity in a two-phase xenon time projection chamber (XeTPC) for dark matter search is described. Results from a prototype detector (XENON3) are presented.

We propose the use of transition-edge sensor (TES) single-photon detectors as a simultaneous target and sensor for direct dark matter searches, and report results from the first search of this kind. We perform a 489 h science run with a TES…

The observation of high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos is one of the most promising future options to increase our knowledge on non-thermal processes in the universe. Neutrinos are e.g. unavoidably produced in environments where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrich F. Katz

We consider a model of sub-GeV dark matter whose interaction with the Standard Model is mediated by a new vector boson (the dark photon) which couples kinetically to the photon. We describe the possibility of constraining such a model using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-30 A. Caputo , A. Esposito , E. Geoffray , A. D. Polosa , S. Sun

Theoretical predictions for neutrino fluxes indicate that km$^{3}$ scale detectors are needed to detect certain astrophysical sources. The three Mediterranean experiments, ANTARES, NEMO and NESTOR are working together on a design study,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Carr , D. Dornic , F. Jouvenot , G. Maurin

Next-generation ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will have the potential to probe the decay of heavy dark matter (DM) into UHE neutrinos, with energies in excess of $10^7$~GeV. Yet, this potential may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Victor Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Walter Winter

High energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical processes will allow for a new way of studying the universe. In order to detect the expected flux of high energy neutrinos from specific astrophysical sources, neutrino telescopes of a scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. A. Rapidis

We show that a two-excitation process in superfluid helium, combined with sensitivity to meV energy depositions, can probe dark matter down to the ~keV warm dark matter mass limit. This mass reach is three orders of magnitude below what can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Katelin Schutz , Kathryn M. Zurek

We investigate a possibility of neutralino dark matter (DM) direct detection in the future electron accelerators. That is counting of high p_T electron recoil events by neutralinos in halo. If selectron and neutralino masses would be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Junji Hisano , Minoru Nagai , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Masato Senami