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most citedNeutron stars can shine a light on elusive lepton-flavor-violating dark matter

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hep-ph2026

Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube

Alberto M. Gago, Jaime Hoefken Zink, Joel Jones-Pérez +1

We study the sensitivity of IceCube to blazar-boosted dark matter in a fermionic dark matter model with a massive vector mediator coupling to quarks. To this aim, we compute the di…

hep-ph2026

Complementarity Between Neutrino Neutral and Charged Current Events in the Search for New Physics

Julia Gehrlein, Jaime Hoefken Zink, Pedro A. N. Machado +1

At long-baseline neutrino experiments, neutral-current (NC) events accumulate in large numbers but are seldom exploited for new physics searches. We demonstrate their potential usi…

hep-ph2026

Dark Matter Heating of Compact Stars Beyond Capture: A Relativistic Framework for Energy Deposition by Particle Beams

Jaime Hoefken Zink, Shihwen Hor, Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada

Compact astrophysical objects, such as neutron stars and white dwarfs, can act as detectors of energetic particle fluxes originating from astrophysical accelerators. While most exi…

hep-ph2025

Neutron stars can shine a light on elusive lepton-flavor-violating dark matter

Hooman Davoudiasl, Jaime Hoefken Zink, Sebastian Trojanowski

We investigate a scenario in which dark matter (DM) poses a challenge to conventional direct and indirect detection, making it much more elusive than typical candidates. We focus o…

hep-ph2025

Single pion resonant production in BSM scenarios: cross sections and amplitudes

Jaime Hoefken Zink, Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework describing single pion resonant production through inelastic dark fermion-nucleon interactions mediated by resonances in the GeV-sc…

hep-ph2024

How to rule out in with White Dwarf Cooling

Patrick Foldenauer, Jaime Hoefken Zink

In recent years, the gauge group has received a lot of attention since it can, in principle, account for the observed excess in the anomalous muon magnetic moment…