Implications of unitarity and gauge invariance for simplified dark matter models

F Kahlhoefer, K Schmidt-Hoberg, T Schwetz… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We show that simplified models used to describe the interactions of dark matter
with Standard Model particles do not in general respect gauge invariance and that …

Constraining dark sectors with monojets and dijets

M Chala, F Kahlhoefer, M McCullough… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We consider dark sector particles (DSPs) that obtain sizeable interactions with
Standard Model fermions from a new mediator. While these particles can avoid observation …

Dirac-fermionic dark matter in U (1) X models

A Alves, A Berlin, S Profumo, FS Queiroz - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We study a number of U (1) X models featuring a Dirac fermion dark matter particle.
We perform a comprehensive analysis which includes the study of corrections to the muon …

Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector

P Adhikari, R Ajaj, DJ Auty, CE Bina, W Bonivento… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon detector aiming to directly detect weakly
interacting massive particles (WIMPs), located at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). After …

S-channel dark matter simplified models and unitarity

C Englert, M McCullough, M Spannowsky - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2016 - Elsevier
The ultraviolet structure of s-channel mediator dark matter simplified models at hadron
colliders is considered. In terms of commonly studied s-channel mediator simplified models …

Augury of darkness: the low-mass dark Z′ portal

A Alves, G Arcadi, Y Mambrini, S Profumo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Dirac fermion dark matter models with heavy Z′ mediators are subject to stringent
constraints from spin-independent direct searches and from LHC bounds, cornering them to …

LHC signatures of a Z′ mediator between dark matter and the SU (3) sector

O Ducu, L Heurtier, J Maurer - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we study the experimental signatures of a gluophilic Z′ at the LHC,
in particular through the analysis of three jets or four tops events. The Z′ couples to gluons …

Complementarity of experiments in probing the non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions

A Brenner, G Herrera, A Ibarra, S Kang… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions depends on 28
coupling strengths for dark matter spin up to 1/2. Due to the vast parameter space of the …

A combined analysis of PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T experiments within the framework of dark matter effective theory

Z Liu, Y Su, YL Sming Tsai, B Yu, Q Yuan - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Weakly interacting massive particles are a widely well-probed dark matter
candidate by the dark matter direct detection experiments. Theoretically, there are a large …

Is it possible to discover a dark matter particle with an accelerator?

VA Bednyakov - Physics of Particles and Nuclei, 2016 - Springer
The paper contains description of the main properties of the galactic dark matter (DM)
particles, available approaches for detection of DM, main features of direct DM detection …