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A Comprehensive Interpretation of the LZ High-Energy Recoil Event: A Minimal Dark Sector and Its Experimental Tests
Mattia Di Mauro
The keV nuclear-recoil candidate reported by LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) motivates an inelastic dark matter (DM) interpretation, in which scattering converts the DM particle into a sligh…
A possible interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN recoil event in the 2HD+a scenario
Giorgio Arcadi, Mattia di Mauro, Abdelhak Djouadi +1
It is tantalizing to consider the recent observation of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment of a high energy nuclear recoil candidate at keV as the long-awai…
Testing Higgs-Coupled Minimal Dark Matter with Solar Neutrinos after the LZ High-Recoil Event
Mattia Di Mauro
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration has reported a nuclear-recoil candidate at keV, motivating interpretations in terms of endothermic dark matter (DM). We investigate this sig…
Solar Capture Tests of Inelastic Dark Matter after the LZ High-Recoil Event
Mattia Di Mauro, Halim Shaikh
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration has reported a keV nuclear-recoil candidate for which endothermic dark matter (DM) gives some of the largest local significances. We study S…
Dark Matter at the Kinematic Edge: Interpreting the 248 keV LZ Nuclear-Recoil Candidate
Mattia Di Mauro
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration recently reported one event consistent with a keV nuclear recoil in a tonne-year exposure, with a maximum local significance of $3.4σ…
A geometric origin for the radiative neutrino portal to secluded dark matter
Mattia Di Mauro
We study a secluded dark-matter scenario in which the smallness of laboratory signals is linked to the origin of neutrino masses. In the four-dimensional theory, the dark sector co…
Revisiting predictions for cosmic-ray antinucleon fluxes from Galactic Dark Matter
Lorenzo Stefanuto, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +3
The data on cosmic antiprotons have reached an outstanding precision on energies spanning from GeV to hundreds of TeV, thanks to the space-based AMS-02 experiment. The balloon-born…
Proton-Proton to Antinucleon Cross Sections for Cosmic Ray Applications
Mariaelena Boglione, Mattia di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +3
We present predictions of inclusive antiproton and antineutron production cross sections in proton-proton collisions relevant to primary and secondary antiproton production in cosm…
Vector Higgs-Portal Dark Matter: How UV Completion Reopens Viable Parameter Space
Halim Shaikh, Mattia Di Mauro
The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the central open problems in modern physics. Among the most extensively studied candidates are weakly interacting massive par…
Toward universal coalescence models for antideuteron production
Mattia di Mauro, Jordan Koechler, Lorenzo Stefanuto +3
Cosmic-ray (CR) antinuclei, especially antideuteron and antihelium-3 nuclei , are among the most promising messengers for indirect dark ma…
A Comprehensive Study of WIMP Models Explaining the Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess
Chuiyang Kong, Mattia Di Mauro
The Galactic Center excess (GCE) of GeV rays may hint at dark matter (DM), yet its origin remains debated. Motivated by this, we survey weakly interacting massive particle (WIM…
WIMP Shadows: Phenomenology of Secluded Dark Matter in Three Minimal BSM Scenarios
Mattia Di Mauro, Yanhan Wang
We present a comprehensive study of secluded dark matter (DM) , where the relic abundance is set by annihilations into lighter dark mediators that couple only feebly to the…
Dark matter in the Higgs resonance region
Mattia Di Mauro, Chiara Arina, Nicolao Fornengo +2
The singlet scalar Higgs portal model provides one of the simplest explanations of dark matter in our Universe. Its Higgs resonant region, , has gained pa…
A new evaluation of the antiproton production cross section for cosmic ray studies
Mattia di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Andreas Goudelis +1
Theoretical predictions for the cosmic antiproton spectrum currently fall short of the corresponding experimental level of accuracy. Among the main sources of uncertainty are the a…