Cosmological constraints on dark matter interactions with ordinary matter

MA Buen-Abad, R Essig, D McKeen, YM Zhong - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Dark matter interactions with electrons or protons during the early Universe leave imprints
on the cosmic microwave background and the matter power spectrum, and can be probed …

Limits on the luminance of dark matter from xenon recoil data

Nature, 2023 - nature.com
It is commonly conjectured that dark matter is a charge neutral fundamental particle.
However, it may still have minute photon-mediated interactions through millicharge, or …

Probing the sterile neutrino dipole portal with SN1987A and low-energy supernovae

G Chauhan, S Horiuchi, P Huber, IM Shoemaker - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Beyond the Standard Model electromagnetic properties of neutrinos may lead to copious
production of sterile neutrinos in the hot and dense core of a core-collapse supernova. In …

FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility

F Kling, JL Kuo, S Trojanowski, YD Tsai - Nuclear Physics B, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite being mostly secluded, dark sector particles may feebly interact with photons via a
small mass-dimension 4 millicharge, a mass-dimension 5 magnetic and electric dipole …

Dark matter effective field theory and an application to vector dark matter

J Aebischer, W Altmannshofer, EE Jenkins… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) and the Low Energy Effective
Field Theory (LEFT) can be extended by adding additional spin 0, 1/2 and 1 dark matter …

Thermal WIMPs and the scale of new physics: global fits of Dirac dark matter effective field theories

P Athron, NA Kozar, C Balázs, A Beniwal… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
We assess the status of a wide class of WIMP dark matter (DM) models in light of the latest
experimental results using the global fitting framework GAMBIT. We perform a global …

Neutrino portals, terrestrial upscattering, and atmospheric neutrinos

RA Gustafson, R Plestid, IM Shoemaker - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We consider the upscattering of atmospheric neutrinos in the interior of Earth producing
heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) which subsequently decay inside large volume detectors (eg …

A complete effective field theory for dark matter

JC Criado, A Djouadi, M Perez-Victoria… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We present an effective field theory describing the relevant interactions of the
Standard Model with an electrically neutral particle that can account for the dark matter in the …

[HTML][HTML] Fermionic dark matter-photon quantum interaction: A mechanism for darkness

GB de Gracia, AA Nogueira, R da Rocha - Nuclear Physics B, 2023 - Elsevier
Mass dimension one fermionic fields are prime candidates to describe dark matter, due to
their intrinsic neutral nature, as they are constructed as eigenstates of the charge …

Effective theory of freeze-in dark matter

B Barman, D Borah, R Roshan - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a model independent study of freeze-in of massive particle dark matter (DM) by
adopting an effective field theory framework. Considering the dark matter to be a gauge …