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most citedDark matter in QCD-like theories with a theta vacuum: cosmological and astrophysical implications

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hep-ph2026

Seesaw Cosmology

Nicolás Bernal, Chee Sheng Fong, Óscar Zapata

We study perturbative reheating in which the inflaton transfers its energy to the Standard Model through right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) responsible for light-neutrino masses via the…

hep-ph2026

Probing inelastic sub-GeV dark matter at the DUNE near detector

Amalia Betancur, Gustavo Castrillón, Óscar Zapata

We study inelastic dark matter (iDM) in a minimal and ultraviolet-complete framework in which the dark photon mass arises from a dark Higgs mechanism. The spontaneous breaking of a…

hep-ph2025

Feasibility to probe the dynamical scotogenic model at the LHC

Gustavo Ardila-Tafurth, Andrés Flórez, Cristian Rodríguez +2

We perform a feasibility study to probe dark matter (DM) production at the LHC within a global scotogenic model. The study is conducted using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

hep-ph2025

Pion dark matter in a vacuum: a thermal relic with sharp velocity-dependent self-interactions

Camilo García-Cely, Giacomo Landini, Luca Marsili +1

As recently proposed, a non-vanishing topological angle may play a central role in QCD-like theories of dark matter (DM). In this work, we introduce a dark photon portal to the Sta…

hep-ph2025

Probing low-reheating scenarios with minimal freeze-in dark matter

Nicolás Bernal, Chee Sheng Fong, Óscar Zapata

The parameter space of freeze-in dark matter (DM) with mass through light dark photon (``minimal freeze-in DM'') is currently being probed by direct detection experiments thr…

hep-ph2025

Asymmetries from a charged memory-burdened PBH

Basabendu Barman, Kousik Loho, Óscar Zapata

We explore a purely gravitational origin of observed baryon asymmetry and dark matter (DM) abundance from asymmetric Hawking radiation of light primordial black holes (PBH) in pres…

gr-qc2024

Constraining burdened PBHs with gravitational waves

Basabendu Barman, Kousik Loho, Óscar Zapata

We investigate the implications of memory burden on the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum arising from the Hawking evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs). By considering…

astro-ph.CO2024

Gravitational wave signatures of cogenesis from a burdened PBH

Basabendu Barman, Md Riajul Haque, Óscar Zapata

We explore the possibility of explaining the observed dark matter (DM) relic abundance, along with matter-antimatter asymmetry, entirely from the evaporation of primordial black ho…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Dark matter in QCD-like theories with a theta vacuum: cosmological and astrophysical implications

Camilo García-Cely, Giacomo Landini, Óscar Zapata

QCD-like theories in which the dark matter (DM) of the Universe is hypothesized to be a thermal relic in the form of a dark pion has been extensively investigated, with most studie…

hep-ph2024

Singlet Dirac dark matter streamlined

Carlos E. Yaguna, Óscar Zapata

We propose a new and compact realization of singlet Dirac dark matter within the WIMP framework. Our model replaces the standard stabilizing symmetry with a , and uses s…

hep-ph2023

Bremsstrahlung-induced Gravitational Waves in Monomial Potentials during Reheating

Basabendu Barman, Nicolás Bernal, Yong Xu +1

We discuss the production of primordial gravitational waves (GW) from radiative inflaton decay during the period of reheating, assuming perturbative decay of the inflaton either in…