Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Roberta Calabrese, Marco Chianese, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Ninetta Saviano
Summary: In this paper, the authors study a scenario called boosted dark matter, where dark matter particles are endowed with large kinetic energies. They point out that the current evaporation of primordial black holes can produce high-energy light dark matter, which could give rise to signals much larger than the present upper bounds. This provides significant constraints on the combined parameter space of primordial black holes and sub-GeV dark matter.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Haipeng An, Shuailiang Ge, Wen-Qing Guo, Xiaoyuan Huang, Jia Liu, Zhiyao Lu
Summary: We propose to search for ultralight dark photon dark matter (DPDM) through the local absorption at different radio telescopes, as the local DPDM can induce harmonic oscillations of electrons inside the antenna of radio telescopes, leading to a monochromatic radio signal that can be recorded by telescope receivers.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Ramtin Amintaheri
Summary: TeV-scale dark matter is well justified by the concept of naturalness, and the inclusion of higher-dimensional operators can effectively address theoretical and experimental issues. Furthermore, it is found that next generation large-exposure experiments have the potential to fully probe these dark matter particles.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jin-Wei Wang, Alessandro Granelli, Piero Ullio
Summary: We investigate the potential of relativistic protons in the jets of blazars to boost the surrounding dark matter particles to high energies through elastic collisions. By focusing on two sample blazars, namely TXS 0506 + 056 and BL Lacertae, we find that the induced dark matter flux at Earth could be significant and surpasses the flux associated with dark matter boosted by galactic cosmic rays. This becomes relevant for the direct detection of light dark matter particles with masses lighter than 1 GeV, as demonstrated by the null detection of a signal by XENON1T, MiniBooNE, and Borexino.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Carlos Blanco, Rouven Essig, Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Harikrishnan Ramani, Oren Slone
Summary: We propose using commercially available quantum dots as novel targets to probe sub-GeV dark matter-electron interactions. Quantum dots are nanocrystals of semiconducting material suspended in solvent, and they can be efficient scintillators with high single-photon quantum yields. By tuning the characteristic size of the quantum dots, their band-edge electronic properties can be precisely controlled. An experimental setup using quantum dots and sensitive photodetectors can significantly improve on existing dark-matter bounds.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Elham Rahimi, Evan Vienneau, Nassim Bozorgnia, Andrew Robertson
Summary: We investigate the impact of dark matter self-interactions on the local distribution of dark matter in selected Milky Way-like galaxies. Two different self-interacting dark matter models, with constant and velocity-dependent self-interaction cross-sections, are employed in hydrodynamical simulations. The results show that adding self-interactions and baryons in the simulations leads to local velocity distributions of dark matter halos resembling those obtained from simulations with cold collisionless dark matter and baryons. The best fit Maxwellian distributions fit well with the local dark matter speed distributions in both cases. Inclusion of baryons increases the local dark matter density and shifts the dark matter speed distributions to higher speeds. Considering the implications for direct detection, the halo integrals obtained directly from the simulations are compared to those derived from the best fit Maxwellian velocity distribution, with the majority of halos showing good agreement with the Maxwellian distribution regardless of the dark matter self-interaction models.
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
Review
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Julien Billard, Mark Boulay, Susana Cebrian, Laura Covi, Giuliana Fiorillo, Anne Green, Joachim Kopp, Bela Majorovits, Kimberly Palladino, Federica Petricca, Leszek Roszkowski (Chair), Marc Schumann
Summary: This report provides a comprehensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection searches for particle dark matter. It emphasizes European efforts and highlights the importance of direct detection in confirming the nature of dark matter. The report also discusses scientific and technological synergies with other areas of particle physics and addresses infrastructure needs and challenges.
REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chuan-Yang Xing, Ling-Xiao Xu, Shou-hua Zhu
Summary: We propose a soft-breaking mechanism for dark matter (DM) shift symmetry in a class of composite dark matter models, which is utilized to suppress the nonderivative portal coupling between the Higgs boson and DM particle. By introducing softons, the shift symmetry of DM in the top Yukawa sector is restored, leading to a large amount of novel parameter space being opened up.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gonzalo Herrera, Alejandro Ibarra
Summary: This study investigates the impact of non-galactic dark matter on direct detection experiments by calculating the effect of dark matter flux from the Local Group and the Virgo Supercluster on nuclear and electron recoil experiments. The results show that the increase in dark matter flux can significantly enhance the signal rate.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Haipeng An, Daneng Yang
Summary: The study shows that direct detection experiments have reached the interesting parameter space of freeze-in dark matter models if certain conditions are met, and constraints on these models are presented based on recent results. Additionally, these models can explain the reported excess in electron recoil signals if the mass gap between the ground state and the excited state is at the keV scale.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Gilly Elor, Robert McGehee, Aaron Pierce
Summary: We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter scattering off nucleons. Cross sections greater than 10-36 - 10-30 cm2 seem implausible within the mass range of 10 keV-100 MeV. We propose a dark matter candidate called highly interactive particle relics (HYPERs) that achieves this maximum cross section.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Manimala Chakraborti, Sven Heinemeyer, Ipsita Saha, Christian Schappacher
Summary: The electroweak sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) plays an important role in explaining experimental data, especially the discrepancy between the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and its Standard Model prediction. The correlation between the mass ranges of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), Next-to-LSP (NLSP), and dark matter relic density is explored in this study. Future direct detection experiments and colliders are expected to provide complementary information for these dark matter scenarios.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
B. S. Hu, J. Padua-Arguelles, S. Leutheusser, T. Miyagi, S. R. Stroberg, J. D. Holt
Summary: This study presents converged ab initio calculations of structure factors for elastic spin-dependent WIMP scattering off various nuclei used in dark matter direct-detection searches, providing insights into WIMP-nucleon interactions and nuclear responses. The results are generally consistent with previous calculations, but significant uncertainties in I-127 underscore the need for further research.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Liangliang Su, Lei Wu, Ning Zhou, Bin Zhu
Summary: The Earth-stopping effect is crucial for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter and is related to accelerated dark matter and atmospheric dark matter.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hsiao-Yi Chen, Andrea Mitridate, Tanner Trickle, Zhengkang Zhang, Marco Bernardi, Kathryn M. Zurek
Summary: This paper focuses on a class of materials in which narrow band gaps naturally arise as a consequence of spin-orbit coupling. The scattering and absorption rates of dark matter-electron in these materials are computed using state-of-the-art density functional theory techniques. The inclusion of spin-orbit coupling effects can substantially alter the projected constraints for dark matter.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tomohiro Abe, Yoav Afik, Andreas Albert, Christopher R. Anelli, Liron Barak, Martin Bauer, J. Katharina Behr, Nicole F. Bell, Antonio Boveia, Oleg Brandt, Giorgio Busoni, Linda M. Carpenter, Yu-Heng Chen, Caterina Doglioni, Alison Elliot, Motoko Fujiwara, Marie-Helene Genest, Raffaele Gerosa, Stefania Gori, Johanna Gramling, Alexander Grohsjean, Giuliano Gustavino, Kristian Hahn, Ulrich Haisch, Lars Henkelmann, Junji Hisano, Anders Huitfeldt, Valerio Ippolito, Felix Kahlhoefer, Greg Landsberg, Steven Lowette, Benedikt Maier, Fabio Maltoni, Margarete Muehlleitner, Jose M. No, Priscilla Pani, Giacomo Polesello, Darren D. Price, Tania Robens, Giulia Rovelli, Yoram Rozen, Isaac W. Sanderson, Rui Santos, Stanislava Sevova, David Sperka, Kevin Sung, Tim M. P. Tait, Koji Terashi, Francesca C. Ungaro, Eleni Vryonidou, Shin-Shan Yu, Sau Lan Wu, Chen Zhou
PHYSICS OF THE DARK UNIVERSE
(2020)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Dillon Berger, Seyda Ipek, Tim M. P. Tait, Michael Waterbury
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2020)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jason Arakawa, Tim M. P. Tait
Summary: The study examines a real electroweak triplet scalar field as dark matter, without relying on standard freeze out relic abundance determination. Collider searches, direct scattering searches, and searches for indirect products of annihilation all provide valuable information on the dark matter particle, with each type of search being most effective in different parameter space regions. Despite uncertainties and limitations, the example of WIMP dark matter remains viable in certain regimes.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Lucien Heurtier, Fei Huang, Tim M. P. Tait
Summary: In a dynamical framework with strong coupling, the temperature-dependent mass of the QCD axion may evolve in a non-trivial way, leading to a suppression of its relic abundance. This suppression could open up a wider range of parameter space, particularly for axion dark-matter models, and is significant for these models.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Jessica N. Howard, Seyda Ipek, Tim M. P. Tait, Jessica Turner
Summary: In this study, we propose a novel mechanism for dark matter production, in which the confinement phase of the weak sector of the Standard Model leads to the confinement of dark matter into pions, generating the relic abundance. We solve the Boltzmann equations to determine the required confinement scale and dark matter mass to produce the observed relic density, and analyze the parameter space for regions that avoid detection and successfully produce the relic density.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Jason Arakawa, Arvind Rajaraman, Tim M. P. Tait
Summary: We investigate a novel interplay between the decay and annihilation of particles during a first order phase transition, where the particles become trapped in the false vacuum and their annihilation rates are enhanced. This study has important implications for areas such as baryogenesis.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Linda M. Carpenter, Taylor Murphy, Tim M. P. Tait
Summary: We study a renormalizable model of Dirac fermion dark matter that communicates with the Standard Model through a pair of mediators - one scalar, one fermion. We examine the many effective operators generated at one-loop order when the mediators are heavy and find that they are often phenomenologically relevant. We reinterpret experimental searches at the LHC and explore various constraints on the mediator sector and dark matter from both cosmological and direct/indirect detection perspectives.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Physics, Nuclear
Jonathan L. Feng, Felix Kling, Mary Hall Reno, Juan Rojo, Dennis Soldin, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Jamie Boyd, Ahmed Ismail, Lucian Harland-Lang, Kevin J. Kelly, Vishvas Pandey, Sebastian Trojanowski, Yu-Dai Tsai, Jean-Marco Alameddine, Takeshi Araki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Kento Asai, Alessandro Bacchetta, Kincso Balazs, Alan J. Barr, Michele Battistin, Jianming Bian, Caterina Bertone, Weidong Bai, Pouya Bakhti, A. Baha Balantekin, Basabendu Barman, Brian Batell, Martin Bauer, Brian Bauer, Mathias Becker, Asher Berlin, Enrico Bertuzzo, Atri Bhattacharya, Marco Bonvini, Stewart T. Boogert, Alexey Boyarsky, Joseph Bramante, Vedran Brdar, Adrian Carmona, David W. Casper, Francesco Giovanni Celiberto, Francesco Cerutti, Grigorios Chachamis, Garv Chauhan, Matthew Citron, Emanuele Copello, Jean-Pierre Corso, Luc Darme, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Neda Darvishi, Arindam Das, Giovanni De Lellis, Albert De Roeck, Jordy de Vries, Hans P. Dembinski, Sergey Demidov, Patrick DeNiverville, Peter B. Denton, Frank F. Deppisch, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Antonia Di Crescenzo, Keith R. Dienes, Milind Diwan, Herbi K. Dreiner, Yong Du, Bhaskar Dutta, Pit Duwentaester, Lucie Elie, Sebastian A. R. Ellis, Rikard Enberg, Yasaman Farzan, Max Fieg, Ana Luisa Foguel, Patrick Foldenauer, Saeid Foroughi-Abari, Jean-Francois Fortin, Alexander Friedland, Elina Fuchs, Michael Fucilla, Kai Gallmeister, Alfonso Garcia, Carlos A. Garcia Canal, Maria Vittoria Garzelli, Rhorry Gauld, Sumit Ghosh, Anish Ghoshal, Stephen Gibson, Francesco Giuli, Victor P. Goncalves, Dmitry Gorbunov, Srubabati Goswami, Silvia Grau, Julian Y. Guenther, Marco Guzzi, Andrew Haas, Timo Hakulinen, Steven P. Harris, Julia Harz, Juan Carlos Helo Herrera, Christopher S. Hill, Martin Hirsch, Timothy J. Hobbs, Stefan Hoche, Andrzej Hryczuk, Fei Huang, Tomohiro Inada, Angelo Infantino, Ameen Ismail, Richard Jacobsson, Sudip Jana, Yu Seon Jeong, Yongsoo Jho, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Timo J. Karkkainen, Cynthia Keppel, Jongkuk Kim, Michael Klasen, Spencer R. Klein, Pyungwon Ko, Dominik Koehler, Masahiro Komatsu, Karol Kovarik, Suchita Kulkarni, Jason Kumar, Karan Kumar, Jui-Lin Kuo, Frank Krauss, Aleksander Kusina, Maxim Laletin, Chiara Le Roux, Seung J. Lee, Hye-Sung Lee, Helena Lefebvre, Jinmian Li, Shuailong Li, Yichen Li, Wei Liu, Zhen Liu, Mickael Lonjon, Kun-Feng Lyu, Rafal Maciula, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Mohammad R. Masouminia, Josh McFayden, Oleksii Mikulenko, Mohammed M. A. Mohammed, Kirtimaan A. Mohan, Jorge G. Morfin, Ulrich Mosel, Martin Mosny, Khoirul F. Muzakka, Pavel Nadolsky, Toshiyuki Nakano, Saurabh Nangia, Angel Navascues Cornago, Laurence J. Nevay, Pierre Ninin, Emanuele R. Nocera, Takaaki Nomura, Rui Nunes, Nobuchika Okada, Fred Olness, John Osborne, Hidetoshi Otono, Maksym Ovchynnikov, Alessandro Papa, Junle Pei, Guillermo Peon, Gilad Perez, Luke Pickering, Simon Plaetzer, Ryan Plestid, Tanmay Kumar Poddar, Pablo Quilez, Mudit Rai, Meshkat Rajaee, Digesh Raut, Peter Reimitz, Filippo Resnati, Wolfgang Rhode, Peter Richardson, Adam Ritz, Hiroki Rokujo, Leszek Roszkowski, Tim Ruhe, Richard Ruiz, Marta Sabate-Gilarte, Alexander Sandrock, Ina Sarcevic, Subir Sarkar, Osamu Sato, Christiane Scherb, Ingo Schienbein, Holger Schulz, Pedro Schwaller, Sergio J. Sciutto, Dipan Sengupta, Lesya Shchutska, Takashi Shimomura, Federico Silvetti, Kuver Sinha, Torbjorn Sjostrand, Jan T. Sobczyk, Huayang Song, Jorge F. Soriano, Yotam Soreq, Anna Stasto, David Stuart, Shufang Su, Wei Su, Antoni Szczurek, Zahra Tabrizi, Yosuke Takubo, Marco Taoso, Brooks Thomas, Pierre Thonet, Douglas Tuckler, Agustin Sabio Vera, Heinz Vincke, K. N. Vishnudath, Zeren Simon Wang, Martin W. Winkler, Wenjie Wu, Keping Xie, Xun-Jie Xu, Tevong You, Ji-Young Yu, Jiang-Hao Yu, Korinna Zapp, Yongchao Zhang, Yue Zhang, Guanghui Zhou, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
Summary: High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles beyond the acceptance of existing experiments. The proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF) will host experiments to probe standard model processes and search for physics beyond the standard model (BSM). FPF experiments will explore BSM physics through searches for new particle scattering or decay signatures and deviations from SM expectations in a low-background environment.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Anne -Katherine Burns, Tim M. P. Tait, Mauro Valli
Summary: The recent measurement of helium-4 from the near-infrared spectroscopy of extremely metal-poor galaxies may indicate a new puzzle in the early Universe. By combining this measurement with the determination of primordial deuterium, researchers have found indications for a nonvanishing lepton asymmetry during the big bang nucleosynthesis era, suggesting cosmological implications beyond lambda cold dark matter. These findings highlight the importance of considering uncertainties in the nuclear reaction network and exploring conditions for a large total lepton asymmetry in the early Universe.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Aishik Ghosh, Benjamin Nachman, Tilman Plehn, Lily Shire, Tim M. P. Tait, Daniel Whiteson
Summary: Accurate theoretical uncertainty estimation is crucial for the precision program of the LHC. Experimental uncertainties are well-described by stochastic processes and nuisance parameters, but theoretical uncertainties lack such a description. We investigate uncertainty estimates for cross-section predictions based on scale variations in a wide range of processes. Our findings suggest a stochastic origin with accurate uncertainties for strong force-mediated processes, but a systematic underestimate for electroweak processes. We propose an improved scheme based on scale variation of reference processes to reduce outliers in the mapping from leading order to next-to-leading-order in perturbation theory.
SCIPOST PHYSICS CORE
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Linda M. Carpenter, Taylor Murphy, Tim M. P. Tait
Summary: This article introduces an effort to catalog the gauge-invariant interactions of Standard Model particles and new fields, focusing on the six-dimensional color-sextet representation. By studying a simple model and computing cross sections, the utility of this approach is demonstrated. The article highlights the existence of unexplored models with extended strong sectors.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Keith R. Dienes, Lucien Heurtier, Fei Huang, Doojin Kim, Tim M. P. Tait, Brooks Thomas
Summary: The paper suggests the presence of a potential stasis in the expanding universe, where the relative cosmological abundances of different components can remain unchanged, and it is not a coincidence. This kind of stasis gives rise to a host of new theoretical possibilities across the entire cosmological time-line.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jonathan L. Feng, Tim M. P. Tait, Christopher B. Verhaaren
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Ben G. Lillard, Tilman Plehn, Alexis Romero, Tim M. P. Tait
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Djuna Croon, Jessica N. Howard, Seyda Ipek, Timothy M. P. Tait