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Direct and indirect probes of Goldstone dark matter
Tommi Alanne, Matti Heikinheimo, Venus Keus +2
There exists a general model framework where dark matter can be a vanilla WIMP-like thermal relic with a mass of (100 GeV), but it still escapes direct detection. This ha…
Cosmological constraints on light flavons
Matti Heikinheimo, Katri Huitu, Venus Keus +1
The Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism is a well-motivated framework for generating the fermion mass hierarchy. This mechanism introduces flavons, complex scalars which are singlet under t…
Hidden strongly interacting massive particles
Matti Heikinheimo, Kasper Langaeble, Kimmo Tuominen
We consider dark matter as Strongly Interacting Massive Particles (SIMPs) in a hidden sector, thermally decoupled from the Standard Model heat bath. Due to its strong interactions,…
Prospects for indirect detection of frozen-in dark matter
Matti Heikinheimo, Tommi Tenkanen, Kimmo Tuominen
We study observational consequences arising from dark matter (DM) of non-thermal origin, produced by dark freeze-out from a hidden sector heat bath. We assume this heat bath was po…