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hep-ph2022★ 5 cited

MeV Dark Matter with MeV Dark Photons in Abelian Kinetic Mixing Theories

Federico Compagnin, Stefano Profumo, Nicolao Fornengo

We consider the cosmology and phenomenology of a dark photon portal to a simple dark sector consisting of a single, light, fermionic dark matter particle species with mass in the M…

hep-ph2022★ 4 cited

Reduced Axion Abundance from an Extended Symmetry

Itamar J. Allali, Mark P. Hertzberg, Yi Lyu

In recent work we showed that the relic dark matter abundance of QCD axions can be altered when the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) field is coupled to very light scalar/s, rendering the effecti…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Optimizing pixel tracklet searches for shorter lifetimes

Matthew Gignac, Can Kilic, Rakhi Mahbubani +1

Pixel tracklets, disappearing tracks reconstructed with only pixel hits, have proven to be a promising technique in LHC analyses to search for dark matter candidates at the LHC tha…

hep-ph2022★ 24 cited

Millicharged Relics Reveal Massless Dark Photons

Asher Berlin, Jeff A. Dror, Xucheng Gan +1

The detection of massless kinetically-mixed dark photons is notoriously difficult, as the effect of this mixing can be removed by a field redefinition in vacuum. In this work, we s…

hep-ph2022★ 29 cited

On the Sensitivity of Spin-Precession Axion Experiments

Jeff A. Dror, Stefania Gori, Jacob M. Leedom +1

A leading direction in the hunt for axion dark matter is to search for its influence on nuclear spins. The detection scheme involves polarizing a sample of nuclei within a strong s…

hep-ph2022★ 13 cited

Dark Sector Physics at High-Intensity Experiments

Stefania Gori, Mike Williams, Phil Ilten +10

Is Dark Matter part of a Dark Sector? The possibility of a dark sector neutral under Standard Model (SM) forces furnishes an attractive explanation for the existence of Dark Matter…

hep-ph2022★ 33 cited

New Opportunities for Detecting Axion-Lepton Interactions

Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Jeff A. Dror, Stefania Gori

We revisit the theory and constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Dark Black Holes in the Mass Gap

Nicolas Fernandez, Akshay Ghalsasi, Stefano Profumo +2

In the standard picture of stellar evolution, pair-instability -- the energy loss in stellar cores due to electron-positron pair production -- is predicted to prevent the collapse…

hep-ph2022★ 12 cited

Hazma Meets HERWIG4DM: Precision Gamma-Ray, Neutrino, and Positron Spectra for Light Dark Matter

Adam Coogan, Logan Morrison, Tilman Plehn +2

We present a new open-source package, Hazma 2, that computes accurate spectra relevant for indirect dark matter searches for photon, neutrino, and positron production from vector-m…

hep-ph2022★ 7 cited

Heavy Neutral Leptons at Beam Dump Experiments of Future Lepton Colliders

Pierce Giffin, Stefania Gori, Yu-Dai Tsai +1

A new beam dump experiment that utilizes the beam of future high energy electron-positron colliders could be an excellent avenue to search for dark sector particles due to its unpr…

hep-ph2022★ 12 cited

P-even, CP-violating Signals in Scalar-Mediated Processes

Howard E. Haber, Venus Keus, Rui Santos

Most studies of Higgs sector CP violation focus on the detection of CP-violating neutral Higgs-fermion Yukawa couplings, which yield P-odd, CP-violating phenomena. There is some li…

hep-ph2022★ 23 cited

First indirect detection constraints on axions in the Solar basin

William DeRocco, Shalma Wegsman, Brian Grefenstette +2

Axions with masses of order keV can be produced in great abundance within the Solar core. The majority of Sun-produced axions escape to infinity, but a small fraction of the flux i…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Altered Axion Abundance from a Dynamical Peccei-Quinn Scale

Itamar J. Allali, Mark P. Hertzberg, Yi Lyu

We build a model in which the relic abundance of axions is altered from the standard misalignment mechanism, either increased or decreased, due to the presence of a new light scala…

hep-ph2022★ 4 cited

Simulation Based Inference for Efficient Theory Space Sampling: an Application to Supersymmetric Explanations of the Anomalous Muon (g-2)

Logan Morrison, Stefano Profumo, Nolan Smyth +1

For the purpose of minimizing the number of sample model evaluations, we propose and study algorithms that utilize (sequential) versions of likelihood-to-evidence ratio neural esti…

hep-ph2022★ 49 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Ultraheavy particle dark matter

Daniel Carney, Nirmal Raj, Yang Bai +25

We outline the unique opportunities and challenges in the search for "ultraheavy" dark matter candidates with masses between roughly and the Planck scale $m_{\rm pl}…

hep-ph2022

Dark Matter Effective Field Theory and an Application to Vector Dark Matter

Jason Aebischer, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Elizabeth E. Jenkins +1

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and the Low Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT) can be extended by adding additional spin 0, 1/2 and 1 dark matter particles whic…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

New Physics Searches at Kaon and Hyperon Factories

Evgueni Goudzovski, Diego Redigolo, Kohsaku Tobioka +61

Rare meson decays are among the most sensitive probes of both heavy and light new physics. Among them, new physics searches using kaons benefit from their small total decay widths…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Dark matter scattering in astrophysical media: collective effects

William DeRocco, Marios Galanis, Robert Lasenby

It is well-known that stars have the potential to be excellent dark matter detectors. Infalling dark matter that scatters within stars could lead to a range of observational signat…