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hep-ph2019★ 92 cited

BBN constraints on the annihilation of MeV-scale dark matter

Paul Frederik Depta, Marco Hufnagel, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg +1

Thermal dark matter at the MeV scale faces stringent bounds from a variety of cosmological probes. Here we perform a detailed evaluation of BBN bounds on the annihilation cross sec…

hep-ph2018

Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT

The GAMBIT Collaboration, Peter Athron, Csaba Balázs +15

We present global analyses of effective Higgs portal dark matter models in the frequentist and Bayesian statistical frameworks. Complementing earlier studies of the scalar Higgs po…

hep-ph2018

BBN constraints on MeV-scale dark sectors. Part II. Electromagnetic decays

Marco Hufnagel, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Sebastian Wild

Meta-stable dark sector particles decaying into electrons or photons may non-trivially change the Hubble rate, lead to entropy injection into the thermal bath of Standard Model par…

hep-ph2018

Impact of vacuum stability, perturbativity and XENON1T on global fits of and scalar singlet dark matter

Peter Athron, Jonathan M. Cornell, Felix Kahlhoefer +3

Scalar singlet dark matter is one of the simplest and most predictive realisations of the WIMP (weakly-interacting massive particle) idea. Although the model is constrained from al…

hep-ph2018

Self-interacting dark matter with a stable vector mediator

Michael Duerr, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Sebastian Wild

Light vector mediators can naturally induce velocity-dependent dark matter self-interactions while at the same time allowing for the correct dark matter relic abundance via thermal…

hep-ph2017★ 36 cited

Exploring light mediators with low-threshold direct detection experiments

Felix Kahlhoefer, Suchita Kulkarni, Sebastian Wild

We explore the potential of future cryogenic direct detection experiments to determine the properties of the mediator that communicates the interactions between dark matter and nuc…