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hep-ph2019★ 39 cited

Self-interacting dark matter without prejudice

Nicolás Bernal, Xiaoyong Chu, Suchita Kulkarni +1

The existence of dark matter particles that carry phenomenologically relevant self-interaction cross sections mediated by light dark sector states is considered to be severely cons…

hep-ph2019★ 182 cited

Neutrinoless double beta decay versus other probes of heavy sterile neutrinos

Patrick D. Bolton, Frank F. Deppisch, P. S. Bhupal Dev

We make a comparative study of the neutrinoless double beta decay constraints on heavy sterile neutrinos versus other direct and indirect constraints from both lepton number conser…

hep-ph2019★ 12 cited

Charming loops in exclusive rare FCNC -decays

Dmitri Melikhov

Rare -decays induced by flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNC) is one of the promising candidates for probing physics beyond the Standard model. However, for identifying poten…

hep-ph2019★ 3 cited

Multiquark-Adequate QCD Sum Rules: the Case of Flavour-Exotic Tetraquarks

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

Frequently, theoretical discussions of multiquark hadron states prove to be contaminated or even dominated by contributions of conventional hadrons. For the approach to QCD bound s…

hep-ph2019★ 18 cited

Tetraquark-adequate QCD sum rules for quark-exchange processes

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

We consider quark-hadron duality relations and QCD sum rules for correlators involving exotic tetraquark currents, here specializing to the case of quark-exchange processes. We poi…

hep-ph2019★ 105 cited

Ultraviolet Freeze-in and Non-Standard Cosmologies

Nicolás Bernal, Fatemeh Elahi, Carlos Maldonado +1

A notable feature of UV freeze-in is that the relic density is strongly dependent on the highest temperatures of the thermal bath, and a common assumption is that the relevant 'hig…

hep-ph2019★ 24 cited

Searching for a light through Higgs production at the LHC

Frank F. Deppisch, Suchita Kulkarni, Wei Liu

We investigate the potential of LHC resonance searches in leptonic final states to probe the in the minimal model. Considering the current constraints on the …

hep-ph2019★ 145 cited

On the relation between Migdal effect and dark matter-electron scattering in isolated atoms and semiconductors

Rouven Essig, Josef Pradler, Mukul Sholapurkar +1

A key strategy for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter is to search for small ionization signals. These can arise from dark matter-electron scattering or when the dark matt…

hep-ph2019★ 14 cited

Cluster reducibility of multiquark operators

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

It is shown that the multiquark gauge-invariant operators can, in general, be decomposed into combinations of products of ordinary hadronic operators, exhibiting their cluster redu…

hep-ph2019★ 44 cited

A Practical and Consistent Parametrization of Dark Matter Self-Interactions

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, Hitoshi Murayama

Self-interacting dark matter has been proposed to explain the apparent mass deficit in astrophysical small-scale halos, while observations from galaxy clusters suggest that the cor…

hep-ph2019★ 36 cited

Stellar probes of dark sector-photon interactions

Xiaoyong Chu, Jui-Lin Kuo, Josef Pradler +1

Electromagnetically neutral dark sector particles may directly couple to the photon through higher dimensional effective operators. Considering electric and magnetic dipole moment,…

hep-ph2019★ 83 cited

Heavy neutrino production via at the lifetime frontier

Frank F. Deppisch, Suchita Kulkarni, Wei Liu

We investigate the pair production of right-handed neutrinos from the decay of an additional neutral boson in the gauged model. Taking into account current const…

hep-ph2019

The dispersion method and dimensional regularization applied to the decay

I. Boradjiev, E. Christova, H. Eberl

We have calculated the -loop contribution to the amplitude of the decay in the unitary gauge through the dispersion method and in the gauge using dimensional r…

hep-ph2019★ 20 cited

Probing nonstandard lepton number violating interactions in neutrino oscillations

Patrick D. Bolton, Frank F. Deppisch

We discuss lepton number violating processes in the context of long-baseline neutrino oscillations. We summarise and compare neutrino flavour oscillations in quantum mechanics and…

hep-ph2019★ 32 cited

Tetraquark-adequate formulation of QCD sum rules

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

We study details of QCD sum rules à la Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov for exotic tetraquark states. We point out that duality relations for correlators involving exotic currents have…

hep-ph2019★ 30 cited

Finite-size dark matter and its effect on small-scale structure

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, Hitoshi Murayama

If dark matter has a finite size that is larger than its Compton wavelength, the corresponding self-interaction cross section decreases with the velocity. We investigate the implic…