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most citedThe Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints

909 citations · 6k across the 134 of their papers we have counts for

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142 papers

hep-ph2026

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…

hep-ph2026

Photons, jets and missing momentum from a two-vector dark sector

Yara do Amaral Coutinho, Benjamin Fuks, Mark D. Goodsell +4

We investigate the LHC phenomenology of a vector dark-sector effective theory containing two neutral massive vector states, both odd under a dark-parity symmetry. The lightest stat…

hep-ph2026

Dark Matter as a Source for Lepton Flavor Violation

Jeremy Echeverria, Patricio Escalona, Farinaldo Queiroz +1

We will witness enormous progress in the experimental sensitivity to charged-lepton-violation processes in the near future. New physics signals of charged lepton violation might be…

hep-ph2026

Multi-Component Dark Matter as a Solution to the Galactic Center GeV Excess

Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Clarissa Siqueira, Carlos E. Yaguna

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is a compelling signature of dark matter annihilation, but its spectral morphology is difficult to reconcile with the traditional paradigm of a sin…

hep-ex2026

Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book 2025

Mario A. Acero, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Belén Andrada +24

The first process for the Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure for High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (LASF4RI-HECAP) came to a conclusion in Oct…

hep-ph2026

Cosmological Constraints on Long-Lived Particles Using Dimension-Six Effective Operators

Mickael V. S. de Farias, Rodrigo Holanda, Matheus M. A. Paixao +2

Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an interesting window into physics beyond the Standard Model, offering characteristic signatures at colliders and in cosmology. In this work, we…

hep-ph2026

Search for Axions and Dark Photons Using Single Molecule Magnets

Jose R. Alves, Manfred Lindner, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +1

Molecular magnets, although analogous to familiar macroscopic magnets, offer a platform for next generation magnetic storage technologies with far higher data densities and prospec…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 2 cited

MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters

Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459

This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…

hep-ph2025

Type I + II Seesaw Model in light of the New Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

Maria Aguilar, Juan Carlos Helo, Toshihiko Ota +3

Global analysis of neutrino oscillation data slightly favors normal mass ordering. In this work, we investigate an extended scalar sector that naturally gives rise to a type I + II…

hep-ph2025

Constraining Effective Field Theories for dark matter candidates annihilating into gamma-ray lines with CTAO

Lucia Angel, Debasish Borah, Jacinto P. Neto +2

Gamma-ray lines constitute a smoking gun signature for annihilating dark matter particles. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and satellites have searched for such signals bu…

hep-ph2025

Updated Bounds on the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model from LHC Dilepton Resonance Searches

Gabriela Lichtenstein, Ricardo C. Silva, Mario J. Neves +1

The Left-Right model is a popular extension of the Standard Model that features three new neutral gauge bosons, and . Collider searches for a Left-Right symmetry a…

hep-ph2025

Enabling Thermal Dark Matter within the Vanilla - Model

Nicolás Bernal, Jacinto P. Neto, Javier Silva-Malpartida +1

Thermal dark matter is a compelling setup that has been probed by a multitude of experiments, mostly in the GeV-TeV mass range. The thermal paradigm in the sub-GeV range is about t…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

hep-ph2025

Reinterpretation and preservation of data and analyses in HEP

Jon Butterworth, Sabine Kraml, Harrison Prosper +145

Data from particle physics experiments are unique and are often the result of a very large investment of resources. Given the potential scientific impact of these data, which goes…

hep-ph2025

Type-II Seesaw Mechanism for Dirac Neutrinos and its Implications on and Lepton Flavor Violation in a 3-3-1 model

Vinícius Oliveira, Patricio Escalona, Lucia Angel +2

In this study, we implement the type-II seesaw mechanism for Dirac neutrino masses within the framework of a 3-3-1 model. To this end, we introduce a scalar sextet and impose both…

hep-ph2025

Updated BBN Bounds on Hadronic Injection in the Early Universe: The Gravitino Problem

Lucia Angel, Giorgio Arcadi, Matheus M. A. Paixão +1

Late-decaying particles naturally arise in many extensions of the Standard Model, directly impacting key cosmological processes in the early universe, such as Big Bang Nucleosynthe…

physics.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

The Hubble Tension: Relativistic Dark Matter Production from Long-lived Particles

Alvaro S. de Jesus, Matheus M. A. Paixão, Dêivid R. da Silva +2

The tension between direct measurements of the Hubble constant and those stemming from Cosmic Microwave Background probes has triggered a multitude of studies. The connection betwe…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Ultraheavy Dark Matter and WIMPs Production aided by Primordial Black Holes

Giorgio Arcadi, Manfred Lindner, Jacinto P. Neto +1

The unitary bound restricts thermal relics to be lighter than TeV. This work investigates the production of ultraheavy dark matter and WIMPs in the presence of primordial bla…

physics.acc-ph2024

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

hep-ph2024★ 57 cited

The Waning of the WIMP: Endgame?

Giorgio Arcadi, David Cabo-Almeida, Maíra Dutra +7

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) continue to be considered some of the best-motivated Dark Matter (DM) candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search pro…

hep-ph2023

Vector-Like Fermions and Inert Scalar Solutions to the Muon g-2 Anomaly and collider probes at the HL-LHC and FCC-hh

Á. S. de Jesus, F. S. Queiroz, J. W. F. Valle +1

We examine simple models with an inert scalar and vector-like leptons that can explain the recent measurement reported at FNAL. Prompted by this exciting result, we explore…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Constraining Gamma-ray Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation using Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. data

Lucia Angel, Guillermo Gambini, Leticia Guedes +2

Using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data and 10 years of H.E.S.S. observations in the direction of the galactic center, we derive limits on gamma-ray lines originated from dark matter anni…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

The H0 trouble: Confronting Non-thermal Dark Matter and Phantom Cosmology with the CMB, BAO, and Type Ia Supernovae data

Simony S da Costa, Dêivid R da Silva, Álvaro S de Jesus +2

We have witnessed different values of the Hubble constant being found in the literature in the past years. Albeit, early measurements often result in an much smaller than tho…