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20152026
most citedA Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

159 citations · 757 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

hep-ph2026

Technically Natural Baryogenesis with the QCD Axion

Pouya Asadi, David Cyncynates, Stefania Gori

The strong CP problem, dark matter, and the observed baryon abundance may all be connected dynamically through the QCD axion, though whether this connection is realized in Nature d…

hep-ph2026

For Whom the Xenon Recoils: Magnetic Inelastic Dark Baryons

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Patrick J. Fox +2

We develop a theory of a dark baryon dark matter candidate that interacts with nuclei dominantly through inelastic scattering mediated by a transition magnetic dipole operator. Mod…

hep-ph2026

Rich Phenomenology from Simple Ingredients: A Review of Confining Dark Sectors

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Graham D. Kribs

We review theories with confining dark sectors and their implications for dark matter, cosmology, phenomenology, and unsolved Standard Model puzzles. Models with new strongly-coupl…

hep-ph2026

On the Run from the Dark Side of the Muon

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Samuel Homiller +1

We present an analysis strategy for probing physics beyond the Standard Model via modifications to the parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a muon beam, which measurably alter t…

hep-ph2025

Quirks Live in Cool Universes

Pouya Asadi, Graham D. Kribs, Markus A. Luty

We demonstrate that cosmological observations place strong bounds on the reheat temperature of the Standard Model (SM) in minimal models of `quirks' -- heavy fermions…

hep-ph2025

Axiverse Baryogenesis

Pouya Asadi, David Cyncynates, Stefania Gori

The QCD axion may offer a unified origin for the baryon asymmetry and dark matter through axiogenesis. However, in the minimal QCD axion scenario, axiogenesis either underproduces…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 2 cited

MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters

Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459

This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Lepton Flavor Violation: From Muon Decays to Muon Colliders

Pouya Asadi, Hengameh Bagherian, Katherine Fraser +2

We investigate the unique potential of a high-energy muon collider to probe lepton-flavor-violating signals arising from physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Low-energy, precisi…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Stopping Dark Mesons in Their Tracks with Long-Lived Particle and Resonant Signatures

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Elias Bernreuther +3

Dark sectors with confining gauge interactions can provide both simple dark matter candidates and striking signals at colliders. We recast Large Hadron Collider searches for two di…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Genesis of baryon and dark matter asymmetries through ultraviolet scattering freeze-in

Pouya Asadi, Marianne Moore, David E. Morrissey +1

We introduce a new mechanism for the simultaneous generation of baryon and dark matter asymmetries through ultraviolet-dominated freeze-in scatterings. The mechanism relies on heav…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

physics.acc-ph2025

Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider

Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198

This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…

hep-ph2024

Noble Dark Matter: Surprising Elusiveness of Dark Baryons

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Graham D. Kribs

Dark matter could be a baryonic composite of strongly-coupled constituents transforming under SU(2). We classify the SU(2) representations of baryons in a class of simple c…

hep-ph2024

Fermion-Portal Dark Matter at a High-Energy Muon Collider

Pouya Asadi, Samuel Homiller, Aria Radick +1

In this work, we provide a comprehensive study of fermion-portal dark matter models in the freeze-in regime at a future muon collider. For different possible non-singlet fermion po…

physics.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

hep-ph2024

Direct Detection of Dark Baryons Naturally Suppressed by -parity

Pouya Asadi, Graham D. Kribs, Chester J. Hamilton Mantel

We identify symmetries in a broad class of vector-like confining dark sectors that forbid the leading electromagnetic moments that would ordinarily mediate dark baryon scattering w…

hep-ph2023

A Duet of Freeze-in and Freeze-out: Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter and Muon Colliders

Pouya Asadi, Aria Radick, Tien-Tien Yu

We study a Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter model and its signatures at a future Muon Collider. We focus on the less-explored regime of feeble dark matter interactions, which suppresses…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism and Flavorful New Physics

Pouya Asadi, Arindam Bhattacharya, Katherine Fraser +2

When the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism is used to explain the Standard Model flavor hierarchy, new physics couplings are also determined by the horizontal symmetry. However, additiona…

physics.acc-ph2023

Towards a Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Dean Adams, Rohit Agarwal +294

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions a…

hep-ph2022★ 23 cited

Chiral Nelson--Barr Models: Quality and Cosmology

Pouya Asadi, Samuel Homiller, Qianshu Lu +1

It was recently shown that domain walls from the spontaneous breaking of CP symmetry are exactly stable, and must be inflated away to recover a viable cosmology. We investigate the…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Quantum Entanglement and the Thermal Hadron

Pouya Asadi, Varun Vaidya

This paper tests how effectively the bound states of strongly interacting gauge theories are amenable to an emergent description as a thermal ensemble. This description can be deri…

hep-ph2022★ 21 cited

Oblique Lessons from the Mass Measurement at CDF II

Pouya Asadi, Cari Cesarotti, Katherine Fraser +2

The CDF collaboration recently reported a new precise measurement of the boson mass with a central value significantly larger than the SM prediction. We explore the effec…

physics.ins-det2022★ 159 cited

A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…

hep-ph2022★ 27 cited

Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model

Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik +2

It has been shown that a first order confinement phase transition can drastically change the relic dark matter abundance in confining dark sectors with only heavy dark quarks. We s…