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Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade
Rouven Essig, Graham K. Giovanetti, Noah Kurinsky +90
The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress,…
Constraints on antisymmetric tensor fields from Bhabha scattering
Siddharth Tiwary, Rainer Dick
Antisymmetric tensor fields are a compelling prediction of string theory. This makes them an interesting target for particle physics because antisymmetric tensors may couple to ele…
The shadow of dark matter as a shadow of string theory
Andrii Dashko, Rainer Dick
We point out that string theory can solve the conundrum to explain the emergence of an electroweak dipole moment from electroweak singlets through induction of those dipole moments…
Direct signals from electroweak singlets through the Higgs portal
Rainer Dick
We review predictions and constraints for nuclear recoil signals from Higgs portal dark matter under the assumption of standard thermal creation from freeze-out. Thermally created…
Dynamical alignment of visible and dark sector gauge groups
Rainer Dick
We discuss a dark family of lepton-like particles with their own "private" gauge bosons under a local SU'(2)xU'(1) symmetry. The product of dark and visible gauge groups SU'(2)xU'(…
Remarks on Top-philic Boson Interactions with Nucleons
Frederick S. Sage, Jason N. E. Ho, T. G. Steele +1
This article provides the calculation of an effective vertex function between a nucleon and a boson that couples preferentially to either the top quark or the third gene…
Detection prospects for conformally constrained vector-portal dark matter
Frederick S. Sage, Zhi-Wei Wang, Rainer Dick +2
We work with a UV conformal U(1)' extension of the Standard Model, motivated by the hierarchy problem and recent collider anomalies. This model admits fermionic vector portal WIMP…
Superheavy dark matter and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
R. Dick, K. M. Hopp, K. E. Wunderle
The phase of inflationary expansion in the early universe produces superheavy relics in a mass window between 10^{12} GeV and 10^{14} GeV. Decay or annihilation of these superheavy…
Superstrings and dark matter
R. Dick, N. Eschrich, M. Gaul
We point out that the spectrum and interactions of light states of the heterotic string indicate a string scale close to the GUT scale, and a mass generating scale for the gravitat…
Confinement from a massive scalar in QCD
Rainer Dick
A model is introduced with a massive scalar coupling to the Yang--Mills term in four--dimensional gauge theory. It is shown that the resulting potential of colour sources consists…
Cosmological implications of a light dilaton
R. Dick, M. Gaul
Supersymmetric Peccei-Quinn symmetry and string theory predict a complex scalar field comprising a dilaton and an axion. These fields are massless at high energies, but it is known…
Vector and scalar confinement in gauge theory with a dilaton
Rainer Dick
In a recent letter it has been shown that gauge theory with a dilaton provides linearly increasing gauge potentials from static or uniformly moving pointlike colour sources. This e…