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most citedClassification of three-family flavoured DFSZ axion models that have no domain wall problem

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hep-ph2026

Minimal Flavoured DFSZ Axion Models: Predictive Yukawa Textures and Flavour Constraints

Peter Cox, Maaz Hayat, Raymond R. Volkas

We study a predictive class of flavoured DFSZ axion models in which the Peccei--Quinn symmetry is fully horizontal and the domain wall number is unity. These Minimal F-DFSZ models…

hep-ph2026

Spin-independent scattering of pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter

Nicole F. Bell, Giorgio Busoni, Peter Cox +6

Dark matter with pseudoscalar couplings provides a well-motivated scenario in which direct-detection signals are suppressed at tree level, since the scattering off nuclei is both s…

hep-ph2025

Irreducible Constraints on Hadronically Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Peter Cox, Matthew J. Dolan, Avirup Ghosh

We derive conservative upper limits on the dark-matter--nucleon scattering cross-section for sub-GeV mass dark matter. Working exclusively within the low-energy chiral effective th…

hep-ph2025

A new idea for relating the asymmetric dark matter mass scale to the proton mass

Peter Cox, Rafael E. Pérez, Raymond R. Volkas

Asymmetric dark matter is a well-motivated approach to explain the apparent coincidence between the relic densities of visible and dark matter, . A complete expl…

hep-ph2025

Dark Matter Induced Nucleon Decay Through the Neutron Portal

Nicole F. Bell, Peter Cox, Jayden L. Newstead +1

The neutron portal operator provides a theoretically motivated connection between the visible and dark sectors and features in several well-studied asymmetric dark matter models. T…

hep-ph2024

Photonic Freeze-In

Peter Cox, Matthew J. Dolan, Frederick J. Hiskens

We present a new scenario of freeze-in, where the dark matter is produced exclusively via the annihilation of photons. We study fermionic and scalar dark matter models with a focus…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

New Limits on Light Dark Matter-Nucleon Scattering

Peter Cox, Matthew J. Dolan, Joshua Wood

We derive new bounds on hadronically-interacting, sub-GeV mass dark matter. First, we show that one-loop interactions with photons can be sufficient to maintain equilibrium between…

hep-ph2023★ 7 cited

Classification of three-family flavoured DFSZ axion models that have no domain wall problem

Peter Cox, Matthew J. Dolan, Maaz Hayat +2

We provide an exhaustive classification of three-family DFSZ axion models that have no cosmological domain wall problem. This result is obtained by making the Peccei-Quinn symmetry…