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hep-ph2017★ 94 cited

Dark Matter Freeze-in Production in Fast-Expanding Universes

Francesco D'Eramo, Nicolas Fernandez, Stefano Profumo

If the dark matter is produced in the early universe prior to Big Bang nucleosynthesis, a modified cosmological history can drastically affect the abundance of relic dark matter pa…

hep-ph2017★ 11 cited

Supersymmetric Theory and Models

Howard E. Haber, Laurel Stephenson Haskins

In these introductory lectures, we review the theoretical tools used in constructing supersymmetric field theories and their application to physical models. We first introduce the…

hep-ph2017★ 53 cited

Searching for Secluded Dark Matter with H.E.S.S., Fermi-LAT, and Planck

Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Joseph Silk +1

Short-lived mediators are often used to describe dark matter interactions with Standard Model particles. When the dark matter mass is heavier than the mass of the mediator, it may…

hep-ph2017★ 57 cited

Multi-Higgs doublet models: physical parametrization, sum rules and unitarity bounds

Miguel P. Bento, Howard E. Haber, J. C. Romão +1

If the scalar sector of the Standard Model is non-minimal, one might expect multiple generations of the hypercharge-1/2 scalar doublet analogous to the generational structure of th…

hep-ph2017★ 28 cited

The Impact of Two-Loop Effects on the Scenario of MSSM Higgs Alignment without Decoupling

Howard E. Haber, Sven Heinemeyer, Tim Stefaniak

In multi-Higgs models, the properties of one neutral scalar state approximate those of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in a limit where the corresponding scalar field is roughl…

hep-ph2017★ 33 cited

The Not-So-Well Tempered Neutralino

Stefano Profumo, Tim Stefaniak, Laurel Stephenson Haskins

Light electroweakinos, the neutral and charged fermionic supersymmetric partners of the Standard Model gauge bosons and of the two $\mathrm{SU}(…

hep-ph2017★ 178 cited

Status of the Charged Higgs Boson in Two Higgs Doublet Models

A. Arbey, F. Mahmoudi, O. Stal +1

The existence of charged Higgs boson(s) is inevitable in models with two (or more) Higgs doublets. Hence, their discovery would constitute unambiguous evidence for new physics beyo…

hep-ph2017★ 45 cited

Surprises from Complete Vector Portal Theories: New Insights into the Dark Sector and its Interplay with Higgs Physics

Yanou Cui, Francesco D'Eramo

We study UV complete theories where the Standard Model (SM) gauge group is extended with a new abelian , and the field content is augmented by an arbitrary number of scalar a…

hep-ph2017★ 51 cited

Axions, Instantons, and the Lattice

Michael Dine, Patrick Draper, Laurel Stephenson-Haskins +1

If the QCD axion is a significant component of dark matter, and if the universe was once hotter than a few hundred MeV, the axion relic abundance depends on the function , th…

hep-ph2017★ 20 cited

Saxion Cosmology for Thermalized Gravitino Dark Matter

Raymond T. Co, Francesco D'Eramo, Lawrence J. Hall +1

In all supersymmetric theories, gravitinos, with mass suppressed by the Planck scale, are an obvious candidate for dark matter; but if gravitinos ever reached thermal equilibrium,…

hep-ph2017★ 909 cited

The Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints

Giorgio Arcadi, Maíra Dutra, Pradipta Ghosh +5

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. In light of no conclusive detection signal yet despite an extensive search program…

hep-ph2017★ 112 cited

When the Universe Expands Too Fast: Relentless Dark Matter

Francesco D'Eramo, Nicolas Fernandez, Stefano Profumo

We consider a modification to the standard cosmological history consisting of introducing a new species whose energy density red-shifts with the scale factor like $ρ_ϕ\prop…

hep-ph2017★ 56 cited

High scale flavor alignment in two-Higgs doublet models and its phenomenology

Stefania Gori, Howard E. Haber, Edward Santos

The most general two-Higgs doublet model (2HDM) includes potentially large sources of flavor changing neutral currents (FCNCs) that must be suppressed in order to achieve a phenome…

hep-ph2017★ 53 cited

Probing Leptophilic Dark Sectors with Hadronic Processes

Francesco D'Eramo, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Paolo Panci

We study vector portal dark matter models where the mediator couples only to leptons. In spite of the lack of tree-level couplings to colored states, radiative effects generate int…