scholarly journals Dark Photon Search with PADME at LNF

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860047
Author(s):  
Gabriele Piperno
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Charge ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Massive Vector ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
The Standard Model

Dark Matter elusiveness could be explained by speculating that it lives in a separate sector with respect to the Standard Model and that interacts with it only by means of messengers. The simplest model foresees just one messenger: a, possibly massive, vector boson given by a new U(1) symmetry. This mediator can faintly mix with the photon and, hence, interact with SM charged particles, seeing an effective charge equal to [Formula: see text], with [Formula: see text] SM charge. The PADME experiment, hosted at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, is designed to search for such kind of particle, looking for its production in [Formula: see text] annihilations. Exploiting the DA[Formula: see text]NE linac, the collaboration aims to collect [Formula: see text] positrons on target by the end of 2018, reaching a sensitivity of [Formula: see text] for masses up to [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]Mev.

scholarly journals A global view of the off-shell Higgs portal

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Ruhdorfer ◽  
Ennio Salvioni ◽  
Andreas Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Goldstone Boson ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Portal ◽  
First Time

We study for the first time the collider reach on the derivative Higgs portal, the leading effective interaction that couples a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) scalar Dark Matter to the Standard Model. We focus on Dark Matter pair production through an off-shell Higgs boson, which is analyzed in the vector boson fusion channel. A variety of future high-energy lepton colliders as well as hadron colliders are considered, including CLIC, a muon collider, the High-Luminosity and High-Energy versions of the LHC, and FCC-hh. Implications on the parameter space of pNGB Dark Matter are discussed. In addition, we give improved and extended results for the collider reach on the marginal Higgs portal, under the assumption that the new scalars escape the detector, as motivated by a variety of beyond the Standard Model scenarios.

scholarly journals The Z boson in the framed standard model

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (32) ◽  
pp. 1850190 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Bordes ◽  
Hong-Mo Chan ◽  
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Z Boson ◽  
Unknown Parameter ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Experimental Accuracy ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mixing Patterns

The framed standard model (FSM), constructed initially for explaining the existence of three fermion generations and the hierarchical mass and mixing patterns of quarks and leptons,[Formula: see text] suggests also a “hidden sector” of particles3 including some dark matter candidates. It predicts in addition a new vector boson [Formula: see text], with mass of order TeV, which mixes with the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of the standard model yielding deviations from the standard mixing scheme, all calculable in terms of a single unknown parameter [Formula: see text]. Given that standard mixing has been tested already to great accuracy by experiment, this could lead to contradictions, but it is shown here that for the three crucial and testable cases so far studied (i) [Formula: see text], (ii) [Formula: see text], (iii) [Formula: see text]), the deviations are all within the present stringent experimental bounds provided [Formula: see text] TeV, but should soon be detectable if experimental accuracy improves. This comes about because of some subtle cancellations, which might have a deeper reason that is not yet understood. By virtue of mixing, [Formula: see text] can be produced at the LHC and appear as a [Formula: see text] anomaly. If found, it will be of interest not only for its own sake but serve also as a window on to the “hidden sector” into which it will mostly decay, with dark matter candidates as most likely products.

scholarly journals Constraining dark photon properties with Asteroseismology

2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
Adrián Ayala ◽  
Ilidio Lopes ◽  
Antonio García Hernández ◽  
Juan Carlos Suárez ◽  
Íñigo Muñoz Elorza
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Solar Mass ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Mixing Parameter ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Red Giant ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Universe

ABSTRACT Dark photons are particles invoked in some extensions of the Standard Model that could account for at least part of the dark matter content of the Universe. It has been proposed that the production of dark photons in stellar interiors could happen at a rate that depends on both, the dark photon mass and its coupling to Standard Model particles (the kinetic mixing parameter χ). In this work, we aim at exploring the impact of dark photon productions in the stellar core of solar mass red giant branch (RGB) stars during late evolutionary phases. We demonstrate that near the so-called RGB bump, dark photons production may be an energy sink for the star sufficiently significative to modify the extension of the star convective zones. We show that Asteroseismology is able to detect such variations in the structure, allowing us to predict an upper limit of $\rm 900\ eV$ and 5 × 10−15 for the mass and kinetic mixing of the dark photons, respectively. We also demonstrate that additional constraints can be derived from the fact that dark photons increase the luminosity of the RGB tip over the current observational uncertainties. This work thus paves the way for an empirical approach to deepen the study of such dark matter particles.

scholarly journals The cosmic lithium problem and physics beyond the Standard Model

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S268) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Karsten Jedamzik
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Nuclear Reactions ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model

AbstractIn this proceeding I briefly discuss the possibility of relic decaying or annihilating particles to explain the cosmological 7Li anomaly and/or to be the source of significant amounts of pre-galactic 6Li. The effect of relic massive charged particles through catalysis of nuclear reactions is also discussed. The possibility of a connection of the 7Li problem to the cosmic dark matter and physics beyond the standard model of particle physics, such as supersymmetry, is noted.

scholarly journals Atomki anomaly and the Secluded Dark Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 06007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Small Scale Structure ◽  
Light Vector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Effective Models ◽  
Relic Abundance

The Atomiki anomaly can be interpreted as a new light vector boson. If such a new particle exists, it could be a mediator between the Standard Model sector and the dark sector including the dark matter. We discussed some simple effective models with these particles. In the models, the secluded dark matter models are good candidates to satisfy the thermal relic abundance. In particular, we found that the dark matter self-interaction can be large enough to solve the small scale structure puzzles if the dark matter is a fermion.

scholarly journals Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to light dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ahdida ◽  
◽  
A. Akmete ◽  
R. Albanese ◽  
A. Alexandrov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Neutrino Detector ◽  
Mass Window ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Experimental Campaign ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Universe

Abstract Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive particles represents an appealing solution to the observed thermal relic in the Universe. Indeed, a large experimental campaign is ongoing for the detection of such particles in the sub-GeV mass range. Adopting the benchmark scenario for light dark matter particles produced in the decay of a dark photon, with αD = 0.1 and mA′ = 3mχ, we study the potential of the SHiP experiment to detect such elusive particles through its Scattering and Neutrino detector (SND). In its 5-years run, corresponding to 2 · 1020 protons on target from the CERN SPS, we find that SHiP will improve the current limits in the mass range for the dark matter from about 1 MeV to 300 MeV. In particular, we show that SHiP will probe the thermal target for Majorana candidates in most of this mass window and even reach the Pseudo-Dirac thermal relic.

scholarly journals PREDICTED SIGNATURES AT THE LHC FROM U(1) EXTENSIONS OF THE STANDARD MODEL

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (36) ◽  
pp. 3003-3016 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRAN NATH
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Mass Growth ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Vector Bosons

We discuss the U (1)X extensions of the standard model with focus on the Stueckelberg mechanism for mass growth for the extra U (1)X gauge boson. The assumption of an axionic connector field which carries dual U(1) quantum numbers, i.e. quantum numbers for the hypercharge U(1) Y and for the hidden sector gauge group U (1)X, allows a nontrivial mixing between the mass growth for the neutral gauge vector bosons in the SU(2) L × U (1)Y sector and the mass growth for the vector boson by the Stueckelberg mechanism in the U (1)X sector. This results in an extra Z′ which can be very narrow, but still detectable at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The U (1)X extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model is also considered and the role of the Fayet–Illiopoulos term in such an extension discussed. The U (1)X extensions of the SM and of the MSSM lead to new candidates for dark matter.

scholarly journals A closer study of the framed standard model yielding testable new physics plus a hidden sector with dark matter candidates

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (33) ◽  
pp. 1850195 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Bordes ◽  
Hong-Mo Chan ◽  
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
New Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Experimental Errors ◽  
Mixing Patterns

This closer study of the FSM (I) retains the earlier results of Ref. 1 in offering explanation for the existence of three fermion generations, as well as the hierarchical mass and mixing patterns of leptons and quarks; (II) predicts a vector boson [Formula: see text] with mass of order TeV which mixes with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of the standard model. The subsequent deviations from the standard mixing scheme are calculable in terms of the [Formula: see text] mass. While these deviations for (i) [Formula: see text], (ii) [Formula: see text], and (iii) [Formula: see text] are all within present experimental errors so long as [Formula: see text] TeV, they should soon be detectable if the [Formula: see text] mass is not too much bigger; (III) suggests that in parallel to the standard sector familiar to us, there is another where the roles of flavour and colour are interchanged. Though quite as copiously populated and as vibrant in self-interactions as our own, it communicates but little with the standard sector except via mixing through a couple of known portals, one of which is the [Formula: see text] complex noted in (II), and the other is a scalar complex which includes the standard model Higgs. As a result, the new sector appears hidden to us as we appear hidden to them, and so its lowest members with masses of order 10 MeV, being electrically neutral and seemingly stable, but abundant, may make eligible candidates as constituents of dark matter. A more detailed summary of these results together with some remarks on the model’s special theoretical features can be found in the last section of this paper.

scholarly journals Spin-dependence of gravity-mediated dark matter in warped extra-dimensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel G. Folgado ◽  
Andrea Donini ◽  
Nuria Rius
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Link Type ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Linear Dilaton ◽  
Relic Abundance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Kaluza Klein

AbstractWe study the possibility that Dark Matter (DM) particles of spin 0, 1/2 or 1 may interact gravitationally with Standard Model (SM) particles within the framework of a warped Randall–Sundrum (RS) model. Both the Dark Matter and the Standard Model particles are assumed to be confined to the infra-red (IR) brane and only interchange Kaluza–Klein excitations of the graviton and the radion (adopting the Goldberger–Wise mechanism to stabilize the size of the extra-dimension). We analyze the different DM annihilation channels and find that the presently observed Dark Matter relic abundance, $$\Omega _{\mathrm{DM}}$$ Ω DM , can be obtained within the freeze-out mechanism for DM particles of all considered spins. This extends our first work concerning scalar DM in RS scenarios (Folgado et al., in JHEP 01:161. 10.1007/JHEP01(2020)161, 2020) and put it on equal footing with our second work in which we studied DM particles of spin 0, 1/2 and 1 in the framework of the Clockwork/Linear Dilaton (CW/LD) model (Folgado et al., in JHEP 20:036. 10.1007/JHEP04(2020)036, 2020). We study the region of the model parameter space for which $$\Omega _{\mathrm{DM}}$$ Ω DM is achieved and compare it with the different experimental and theoretical bounds. We find that, for DM particles mass $$m_{\mathrm{DM}} \in [1,15]$$ m DM ∈ [ 1 , 15 ] TeV, most of the parameter space is excluded by the current constraints or will be excluded by the LHC Run III or by the LHC upgrade, the HL-LHC. The observed DM relic abundance can still be achieved for DM masses $$m_{\mathrm{DM}} \in [4,15]$$ m DM ∈ [ 4 , 15 ] TeV and $$m_{G_1} < 10$$ m G 1 < 10 TeV for scalar and vector boson Dark Matter. On the other hand, for spin 1/2 fermion Dark Matter, only a tiny region with $$m_{\mathrm{DM }} \in [4, 15]$$ m DM ∈ [ 4 , 15 ] TeV, $$m_{G_1} \in [5,10]$$ m G 1 ∈ [ 5 , 10 ] TeV and $$\Lambda > m_{G_1}$$ Λ > m G 1 is compatible with theoretical and experimental bounds. We have also studied the impact of the radion in the phenomenology, finding that it does not modify significantly the allowed region for DM particles of any spin (differently from the CW/LD case, where its impact was quite significant in the case of scalar DM). We, eventually, briefly compare results in RS with those obtained in the CW/LD model.

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