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most citedSimplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

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hep-ph2026

Probing CP-violating top-quark dipole moments with tomographic observables

Maxim Perelstein, Minal Shaik, Taewook Youn

Quantum tomography program reconstructs the full spin density matrix of top-quark pairs from dilepton angular correlations at both electron-positron and hadron colliders. We use sy…

hep-ph2025

WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter

Steven Ferrante, Maxim Perelstein, Bingrong Yu

We consider the cosmological history of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) coupled to a light axion-like particle (ALP) via a quadratic coupling. Although the coupling is…

hep-ph2025

Collider Searches for Near-Continuum Dark Matter

Steven Ferrante, Lillian Luo, Maxim Perelstein +1

We study collider constraints on the near-continuum dark matter model, in which the dark sector consists of a tower of closely spaced states with weak-scale masses coupled to the S…

hep-ph2025

Sommerfeld Enhancement from Quantum Forces for Dark Matter

Steven Ferrante, Maxim Perelstein, Bingrong Yu

Quantum forces are long-range interactions that arise only at the loop level. In this work, we study the Sommerfeld enhancement of dark matter (DM) annihilation cross sections caus…

hep-ph2025

Conformal Freeze-in Dark Matter: 5D Dual and Phase Transition

Lillian Luo, Maxim Perelstein

Conformal Freeze-in (COFI) scenario postulates a dark sector described by a conformal field theory (CFT) at energies above the ``gap scale" in the keVMeV range. At the gap scale…

hep-ph2024

Conformal Freeze-In from Neutrino Portal

Sungwoo Hong, Maxim Perelstein, Taewook Youn

We study a scenario where a dark sector, described by a Conformal Field Theory (CFT), interacts with the Standard Model through the neutrino portal. In this setup, conformal invari…