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We point out that, in a class of gauge mediation models using metastable supersymmetry breaking vacua, the minimum of the supersymmetry breaking field in the early universe is dynamically deviated from the one in the low energy. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-11 Motoi Endo , Fuminobu Takahashi

According to a scalar theory of gravity with a preferred frame, electromagnetism in the presence of a gravitational field implies that there is an additional energy tensor, which might contribute to dark matter. The expression of this…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Mayeul Arminjon

It is conventionally argued that Dark Matter (DM) has a non-baryonic nature, but if we assume that DM was frozen out before primordial nucleosynthesis and could not significantly impact primordial abundances this argument may be evaded.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 K. Azizi , S. S. Agaev , H. Sundu

In recent work, it has been argued that multi-TeV masses for scalar superpartners are not unnatural. Indeed, they appear to have significant phenomenological virtues. Here we explore the implications of such `focus point' supersymmetry for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev , Frank Wilczek

An exponential modified gravity with additional logarithmic corrections is considered with the presence of an axion-like scalar field in the role of dark matter. Axion fields are thought to become important at late-times when the axion-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez , German S. Sharov

In this research we consider a $U(1)_X$ gauge boson acting as a dark matter candidate. The vector dark matter (DM) gets mass when a complex singlet scalar breaks the gauge symmetry spontaneously, adding a second Higgs boson to the spectra.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-15 Amir Amiri , Bastián Díaz Sáez , Karim Ghorbani

We show that a scalar and a fermion charged under a global U(1) symmetry can not only explain the existence and abundance of dark matter (DM) and dark radiation (DR), but also imbue DM with improved scattering properties at galactic scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Xiaoyong Chu , Basudeb Dasgupta

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity that embrace conformal coupling to the scalar curvature are the focal point of cosmology on discussions of inflation and late-time accelerating universe. Although there exists a stringent nucleo-synthesis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-26 M. Yoshimura

We consider an alternative cold dark matter candidate, ultralight bosons ($m>10^{-22}$eV) described by a complex scalar field (SFDM) with global U(1) symmetry, with comoving particle number density conserved after particle production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

We develop a theory of dark matter based on a previously proposed picture, in which a complex vacuum scalar field makes the universe a superfluid, with the energy density of the superfluid giving rise to dark energy, and variations from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-30 Kerson Huang , Chi Xiong , Xiaofei Zhao

In this paper we consider very weakly interacting and ultra light scalar and pseudoscalar dark matter candidates. We show that quantum gravity has important implications for such models and that the masses of the singlet scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-17 Xavier Calmet , Folkert Kuipers

We investigate scalar-tensor theories, motivated by dark energy models, in the strong gravity regime around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. In such theories general relativity is modified since the scalar field couples to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 David Benisty , Anne-Christine Davis

Warm dark matter (WDM) may resolve the possible conflict between observed galaxy halos and the halos produced in cold dark matter (CDM) simulations. Here we present an extension of MSSM to include WDM by adding a gauge singlet fermion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 John McDonald , Narendra Sahu

We study the phenomenology of the CMSSM/mSUGRA with non-thermal neutralino dark matter. Besides the standard parameters of the CMSSM we include the reheating temperature as an extra parameter. Imposing radiative electroweak symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-27 Luis Aparicio , Michele Cicoli , Bhaskar Dutta , Sven Krippendorf , Anshuman Maharana , Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo

We consider the generation and evolution of quantum fluctuations of a massive nonsymmetric gravitational field (B-field) from inflationary epoch to matter era in the simplest variant of the nonsymmetric theory of gravitation (NGT), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tomislav Prokopec , Wessel Valkenburg

We revisit the possibility of light scalar dark matter, in the MeV to GeV mass bracket and coupled to electrons through fermion or vector mediators, in light of significant experimental and observational advances that probe new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Céline Bœhm , Xiaoyong Chu , Jui-Lin Kuo , Josef Pradler

The observed dark matter abundance in the Universe can be fully accounted for by a minimally coupled spectator scalar field that was light during inflation and has sufficiently strong self-coupling. In this scenario, dark matter was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-03 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie , Tommi Tenkanen

The nature of the cosmological dark matter remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that dark matter could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose-Einstein condensate in the very early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-22 Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

Scalar field dark matter likely is able to solve all small-scale cosmology problems facing the cold dark matter (CDM), and has become an emerging contender to challenge the CDM. It however requires a particle mass $\sim 1 - 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-26 Tzihong Chiueh

An extension of the Standard Model by three right-handed neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale (the $\nu$MSM) can explain simultaneously dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe, being consistent with the data on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mikhail Shaposhnikov