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Minimal Proton-Mass Dark Matter
Majed Khalaf, Eric Kuflik, Alessandro Lenoci +2
We present a minimal dark matter scenario: a single complex scalar carrying baryon and lepton number, with no new exact stabilizing symmetry. Its leading interaction is a dimension…
The Holographic QCD Axion in Five Dimensions
Csaba Csáki, Eric Kuflik, Wei Xue +1
We present a holographic construction of the QCD axion based on a warped 5D model. A key ingredient of our setup is the introduction of a bulk scalar field , which is holographi…
Angle and Axial Anomaly in Holographic QCD
Csaba Csáki, Eric Kuflik, Wei Xue +1
We present a bottom-up holographic description of the QCD -vacuum and the anomaly in five dimensions. The multi-branched -vacuum structure emerges geometrically from…
Inelastically Decoupling Dark Matter
Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +1
We present a new dark matter candidate, the `inELastically DEcoupling Relic' (iELDER), which is a cold thermal relic whose abundance is determined by the freeze out of its inelasti…
Phases of Dark Matter from Inverse Decays
Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +1
Inverse decays are an interesting avenue for producing dark matter in the early universe. We study in detail various phases of dark matter parameter space where inverse decays cont…
A Cosmological Solution to the Doublet-Triplet Splitting Problem
Csaba Csaki, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Eric Kuflik +1
We propose a model that provides a simultaneous solution to the doublet-triplet splitting problem of grand unified theories, the electroweak hierarchy problem and the strong CP pro…
Instanton NDA and Applications to Axion Models
Csaba Csáki, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Eric Kuflik +1
We present a simple set of power counting rules which allows us to easily estimate calculable instanton effects up to factors. We apply the resulting Instanton NDA to examin…
Heavy Baryon Dark Matter from Confinement: Bubble Wall Velocity and Boundary Effects
Yann Gouttenoire, Eric Kuflik, Di Liu
Confinement in Yang-Mills theories is known to proceed through first-order phase transition. The wall velocity is bounded by due to the need…
On the Dynamical Origin of the Potential and the Axion Mass
Csaba Csáki, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Rick S. Gupta +3
We investigate the dynamics responsible for generating the potential of the , the (would-be) Goldstone boson associated with the anomalous axial symmetry of QCD. The sta…
Dark Matter Through the Axion-Gluon Portal
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +2
Axion-like-particles are a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model that can mediate interactions between the dark matter and ordinary matter. Here we consider an axion porta…
Constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer
Itay M. Bloch, Roy Shaham, Yonit Hochberg +3
Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestr…
Super-Resonant Dark Matter
Csaba Csáki, Andrew Gomes, Yonit Hochberg +3
We introduce Super-Resonant Dark Matter, a model of self-interacting dark matter based on the low energy effective theory of supersymmetric QCD. The structure of the theory ensures…
Roadmap to Thermal Dark Matter Beyond the WIMP Unitarity Bound
Ronny Frumkin, Eric Kuflik, Itay Lavie +1
We study the general properties of the freezeout of a thermal relic. We give analytic estimates of the relic abundance for an arbitrary freezeout process, showing when instantaneou…
Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model
Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik +2
It has been shown that a first order confinement phase transition can drastically change the relic dark matter abundance in confining dark sectors with only heavy dark quarks. We s…
Early-Universe Model Building
Pouya Asadi, Saurabh Bansal, Asher Berlin +37
Theoretical investigations into the evolution of the early universe are an essential part of particle physics that allow us to identify viable extensions to the Standard Model as w…
Thermal Dark Matter from Freezeout of Inverse Decays
Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +1
We propose a new thermal dark matter candidate whose abundance is determined by the freezeout of inverse decays. The relic abundance depends parametrically only on a decay width, w…
Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter
Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik +3
We study the effect of a first-order phase transition in a confining dark sector with heavy dark quarks. The baryons of this sector are the dark matter candidate. During th…
Thermal Squeezeout of Dark Matter
Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik +3
We carry out a detailed study of the confinement phase transition in a dark sector with a gauge group and a single generation of dark heavy quark. We focus on heavy enough…
Heavy Thermal Relics from Zombie Collisions
Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik, Noam Levi +2
We propose a new thermal freezeout mechanism which results in dark matter masses exceeding the unitarity bound by many orders of magnitude, without violating perturbative unitarity…
Axion-like Relics: New Constraints from Old Comagnetometer Data
Itay M. Bloch, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +1
The noble-alkali comagnetometer, developed in recent years, has been shown to be a very accurate measuring device of anomalous magnetic-like fields. An ultra-light relic axion-like…
Super heavy thermal dark matter
Hyungjin Kim, Eric Kuflik
We propose a mechanism of elementary thermal dark matter with mass up to GeV, within a standard cosmological history, whose relic abundance is determined solely by its in…
Dark Matter in Very Supersymmetric Dark Sectors
Avital Dery, Jeff A. Dror, Laurel Stephenson Haskins +2
If supersymmetry exists at any scale, regardless of whether it is restored around the weak scale, it may be a good symmetry of the dark sector, enforcing a degeneracy between its l…
Inflating to the Weak Scale
Michael Geller, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik
We present a new solution to the hierarchy problem, where the Higgs mass is at its observed electroweak value because such a patch inflates the most in the early universe. If the H…
SIMPs through the axion portal
Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Robert McGehee +2
Dark matter could be a thermal relic comprised of strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs), where interactions set the relic abundance. Such interactions ge…