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This is the mini-review on Dark Matter in the 2012 edition of the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Properties. After briefly summarizing the arguments in favor of the existence of Dark Matter, we list possible candidates, ranging in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-12 Manuel Drees , Gilles Gerbier

Among the prominent low-mass dark matter candidates is the QCD axion but also other light and weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model. We review briefly the case for such dark matter and give an overview on most recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-02 Babette Döbrich

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

Despite the fact that dark matter constitutes one of the cornerstones of the standard cosmological paradigm, its existence has so far only been inferred from astronomical observations and its microscopic nature remains elusive. Theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Spyros Argyropoulos , Oleg Brandt , Ulrich Haisch

Identification of beyond-standard-models including WIMP dark matter is studied in four particle final state with a W boson pair and a WIMP pair at the International Linear Collider. Models with different spin structures give distinguishable…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-07-08 T. Suehara , M. Asano , K. Fujii , R. S. Hundi , H. Itoh , S. Matsumoto , N. Okada , T. Saito , Y. Takubo , H. Yamamoto

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are among the favored candidates for cold dark matter in the universe. The phenomenology of supersymmetric WIMPs has been quite developed during recent years. However, there are other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. A. Baltz , L. Bergstrom

In the framework of the Constrained Minimal Supersmmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) we discuss the impact of the pseudo-scalar Higgs boson in delineating regions of the parameters which are consistent with cosmological data and E821 data on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Lahanas , V. C. Spanos

The complementarity of direct, indirect and collider searches for dark matter has improved our understanding concerning the properties of the dark matter particle. I will review the basic concepts that these methods rely upon and highlight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-31 Farinaldo S. Queiroz

In this work, we present UV completions of the recently proposed number-changing Co-SIMP freeze-out mechanism. In contrast to the standard cannibalistic-type dark matter picture that occurs entirely in the dark sector, the $3\to 2$ process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Aditya Parikh , Juri Smirnov , Weishuang Linda Xu , Bei Zhou

Non-minimal simplified extensions of the Standard Model have gained considerable currency in the context of dark matter searches at the LHC, since they predict enhanced mono-Higgs and mono-$W/Z$ signatures over large parts of the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Shankha Banerjee , Geneviève Bélanger , Disha Bhatia , Benjamin Fuks , Sreerup Raychaudhuri

We study a pseudoscalar dark-matter model arising from a complex singlet extension of the standard model (SM), and show that the dark-matter--nucleon scattering is suppressed when two CP-even scalars are degenerate. In such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Sachiho Abe , Gi-Chol Cho , Kentarou Mawatari

I review recent developments in the direct and indirect detection of dark matter and new candidates beyond the WIMP paradigm.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Jonathan L. Feng

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

In this review we discuss constraints on minimal supersymmetric models of particle physics implied by the recent astrophysical observations of WMAP. Although the prospects of detecting supersymmetry increase and 90 percent of the available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 A. B. Lahanas , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

The CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA experiments have found evidence for the spin-independent scattering from nuclei of a light dark matter (DM) particle, 7-12 GeV, which is not excluded by the XENON DM experiments. We show that this putative DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Vernon Barger , Mathew McCaskey , Gabe Shaughnessy

The general arguments for baryonic and galactic dark matter are presented. Limits coming from a variety of theoretical considerations and observations are discussed. The surviving candidates for galactic baryonic dark matter seem most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eduard Masso

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

Bosonic stars,hypothetical astrophysical entities, are generally categorized into two primary classes based on the nature of their constituent particles: Einstein Klein Gordon stars, made up of massive scalar bosons, and Proca stars, their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font

In this work, we investigate a neutrinophilic low-mass dark matter model mediated by a pseudoscalar particle. Since dark matter lacks Standard Model gauge charges, new interactions are required to connect it to the visible sector.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Zhuo Zhang , Lian-Bao Jia , Reyes J. F. Eduardo

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising probe of the substructure of dark matter halos. Deep learning methods have the potential to accurately identify images containing substructure, and differentiate WIMP dark matter from other well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 Stephon Alexander , Sergei Gleyzer , Evan McDonough , Michael W. Toomey , Emanuele Usai