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20242026
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10 papers

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

Hiding a Light Vector Boson from Terrestrial Experiments: A Chargephobic Dark Photon

Haidar Esseili, Graham D. Kribs

We calculate the terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints on a light vector boson that couples to an arbitrary combination of the electromagnetic and currents…

hep-ph2026

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-ph2026

Effective Field Theory of Stückelberg Vector Bosons

Graham D. Kribs, Gabriel Lee, Adam Martin

We explore the effective field theory of a vector field that has a Stückelberg mass. The absence of a gauge symmetry for implies Lorentz-invariant operators are cons…

hep-ph2026

Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes with Dark Matter Annihilation into SUEPs

Mattia Di Mauro, Caleb Gemmell, Austin Batz +4

Standard-Model (SM) hadronic parton showers initiated by secondary cosmic-ray production or dark matter (DM) annihilations robustly predict very low antinuclei yields and a strong…

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…