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We perform a comprehensive analysis for the light scalar dark matter (DM)in the Inert two Higgs doublet model (i2HDM) with compressed mass spectra, small mass splittings among three $\mathbb{Z}_2$ odd particles---scalar $S$, pseudo-scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-03 Chih-Ting Lu , Van Que Tran , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

We study the possible annihilation cross section of scalar dark matter and its coupling \lambda_D to the standard model Higgs in the case of the electroweak symmetry breaking driven by unparticle. Here the annihilation process occurs with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-29 E. Iltan

We investigate the relic abundance of dark matter in the minimal universal extra dimension model including resonance processes by second Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles in all coannihilation processes. After including second KK resonance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shigeki Matsumoto , Masato Senami

In this paper, we study an extension of the standard model with a vector-like generation of leptons. This model provides a viable dark matter candidate and a possibility to enhance the Higgs decay rate into a pair of photons. We evaluate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Aniket Joglekar , Pedro Schwaller , Carlos E. M. Wagner

We investigate the fermionic one-loop cross section for the two photon annihilation of Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter particles in a model of universal extra dimensions (UED). This process gives a nearly mono-energetic gamma-ray line with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

Universal extra dimension models with Kaluza-Klein parity provide us excellent candidates for dark matter. We consider phenomenological universal extra dimension models where the Kaluza-Klein (KK) mass spectrum is different from that of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Yoshiaki Ishigure , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Akiteru Santa

Gauge Higgs Unification in Warped Extra Dimensions provides an attractive solution to the hierarchy problem. The extension of the Standard Model gauge symmetry to $SO(5)xU(1)_X$ allows the incorporation of the custodial symmetry $SU(2)_R$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Marcela Carena , Anibal D. Medina , Nausheen R. Shah , Carlos E. M. Wagner

Models of Universal Extra Dimensions (UED) at the TeV scale lead to the presence of Kaluza Klein (KK) excitations of the ordinary fermions and bosons of the Standard Model that may be observed at hadron and lepton colliders. A conserved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nausheen R. Shah , Carlos E. M. Wagner

We have studied the Kaluza-Klein (KK) mode contributions to the diphoton decay of Higgs boson through the gluon fusion at LHC in a five dimensional $SU(3) times U(1)'$ gauge-Higgs unification (GHU) model. The minimal matter content case is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Nobuhito Maru

The lightest Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter particles and primordial black holes (PBHs) emerge as plausible candidates for dark matter. In scenarios where dark matter is a mix of KK particles and PBHs, PBHs can attract surrounding KK dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yupeng Yang , Qianyong Li , Jiali Hao , Xiujuan Li

In the Littlest Higgs model with $T$ parity (LHT), the $T$-odd heavy photon ($A_H$) is weakly interacting and can play the role of dark matter. We investigate the lower limit on the mass of $A_H$ dark matter under the constraints from Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Lei Wu , Bingfang Yang , Mengchao Zhang

If dark matter is a new species of particle produced in the early universe as a cold thermal relic (a weakly-interacting massive particle-WIMP), its present abundance, its scattering with matter in direct-detection experiments, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-02 Jing-Yuan Chen , Edward W. Kolb , Lian-Tao Wang

We explore the properties of dark matter in theories with two universal extra dimensions, where the lightest Kaluza-Klein state is a spin-0 neutral particle, representing a six-dimensional photon polarized along the extra dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Dan Hooper , Kyoungchul Kong , Rakhi Mahbubani

The theory of universal extra dimensions involves Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles. The lightest KK particle (LKP) is one of the good candidates for cold dark matter. Annihilation of LKP dark matter in the Galactic halo produces high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Satoshi Tsuchida , Masaki Mori

Little Higgs models with T parity contain an attractive dark matter candidate, the heavy photon. We compute the cross section of the heavy photon annihilation into Z-photon pairs, which turns out to be substantially higher than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Perelstein , Andrew Spray

In universal extra dimension (UED) models with one compactified extra dimension, a Z_2 symmetry, termed KK-parity, ensures the stability of the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP). This symmetry leads to two fixed points. In non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-31 Anindya Datta , Ujjal Kumar Dey , Amitava Raychaudhuri , Avirup Shaw

One of the main channels which allows for a large rate of neutralino dark matter annihilation in the early Universe is via the pseudoscalar Higgs A-resonance. In this case, the measured dark matter abundance can be obtained in the minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-12 Howard Baer , Alexander Belyaev , Chung Kao , Patrik Svantesson

The coannihilation mechanism is a well-motivated alternative to the simple thermal freeze-out mechanism, where the dark matter relic density can be obtained through the coannihilation with a partner particle of similar mass with dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-08 Jinhui Guo , Yuxuan He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang

Although they do not address the hierarchy problem, models with Universal Extra Dimensions have attracted a lot of attention as simple benchmark models characterized by small mass splittings and a dark matter WIMP played by the Lightest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Geraldine Servant

The Higgs sector of the Universal Extra Dimensions (UED) has a rather involved setup. With one extra space dimension, the main ingredients to the construct are the higher Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of the Standard Model Higgs boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay , Biplob Bhattacherjee , AseshKrishna Datta