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most citedMulti-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

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hep-ph2026

Auditing anapole dark matter: the limits of model independence in dark matter effective field theory

Duncan K. Adams, Jared Barron, Megan H. McDuffie

Effective field theory is a powerful tool for studying the low-energy behavior of dark sector models without explicit dependence on the high-energy physics. However, bottom-up EFT…

astro-ph.CO2026

Strongest constraints on dark acoustic oscillations from the Lyman-alpha forest

Zhihan Yuan, Caleb Gemmell, Keir K. Rogers +4

We set the first constraints on a small-scale dark acoustic oscillation (DAO) in the linear matter power spectrum arising from dark sector interactions, with a full forward model o…

astro-ph.CO2026

CMB Spectral Distortions from Resonant Conversions in Atomic Dark Sectors

Duncan K. Adams, Jared Barron, Bryce Cyr +1

Dark sectors consisting of atomic constituents (electrons, protons, and photons) offer a well-motivated extension to the Standard Model while providing multiple avenues for phenome…

hep-ph2026

Pushing the Limits of Atomic Dark Matter: First-Principles Recombination Rates and Cosmological Constraints

Jared Barron, Rouven Essig, Megan H. McDuffie +2

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure fo…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining Dark Acoustic Oscillations with the High-Redshift UV Luminosity Function

Jared Barron, David Curtin, Hongwan Liu +3

Dark acoustic oscillations (DAOs) in the matter power spectrum can arise in many different dark sector models, and can imprint on a variety of cosmological observables. In this wor…

physics.ins-det2025

MATHUSLA: An External Long-Lived Particle Detector to Maximize the Discovery Potential of the HL-LHC

Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70

We present the current status of the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle (LLP) detector at the HL-LHC, covering the design, f…

physics.ins-det2025

Conceptual Design Report for the MATHUSLA Long-Lived Particle Detector near CMS

Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70

We present the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle detector at the HL-LHC, covering th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Aggressively-Dissipative Dark Dwarfs: The Effects of Atomic Dark Matter on the Inner Densities of Isolated Dwarf Galaxies

Sandip Roy, Xuejian Shen, Jared Barron +4

We present the first suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of isolated dwarf galaxies for a dark sector that consists of Cold Dark Matter and a strongly-dissipat…

hep-ph2022

Precision Cosmological Constraints on Atomic Dark Matter

Saurabh Bansal, Jared Barron, David Curtin +1

Atomic dark matter is a simple but highly theoretically motivated possibility for an interacting dark sector that could constitute some or all of dark matter. We perform a comprehe…

hep-ph2022

Theory, phenomenology, and experimental avenues for dark showers: a Snowmass 2021 report

Guillaume Albouy, Jared Barron, Hugues Beauchesne +51

In this work, we consider the case of a strongly coupled dark/hidden sector, which extends the Standard Model (SM) by adding an additional non-Abelian gauge group. These extensions…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Recent Progress and Next Steps for the MATHUSLA LLP Detector

Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez, Austin Ball +93

We report on recent progress and next steps in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC as part of the Snowmass 2021 process. Our under…

hep-ph2021★ 41 cited

Unsupervised Hadronic SUEP at the LHC

Jared Barron, David Curtin, Gregor Kasieczka +2

Confining dark sectors with pseudo-conformal dynamics produce SUEP, or Soft Unclustered Energy Patterns, at colliders: isotropic dark hadrons with soft and democratic energies. We…

physics.ins-det2020★ 6 cited

An Update to the Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: Search for Long-Lived Particles at the HL-LHC

Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez, Austin Ball +80

We report on recent progress in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC, updating the information in the original Letter of Intent (Lo…

hep-ph2020★ 5 cited

On the Origin of Long-Lived Particles

Jared Barron, David Curtin

MATHUSLA is a proposed large-volume displaced vertex (DV) detector, situated on the surface above CMS and designed to search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced at the HL-LHC.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 1.1k cited

Multi-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

The IceCube, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC +13

Individual astrophysical sources previously detected in neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neut…