Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

J Alimena, J Beacham, M Borsato… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are
long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as …

Hunting wino and higgsino dark matter at the muon collider with disappearing tracks

R Capdevilla, F Meloni, R Simoniello… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the capabilities of a muon collider experiment to detect disappearing
tracks originating when a heavy and electrically charged long-lived particle decays via X+→ …

Lyman-α constraints on freeze-in and superWIMPs

Q Decant, J Heisig, DC Hooper… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark matter (DM) from freeze-in or superWIMP production is well known to imprint non-cold
DM signatures on cosmological observables. We derive constraints from Lyman-α forest …

Nano-Hertz gravitational waves from collapsing domain walls associated with freeze-in dark matter in light of pulsar timing array observations

Z Zhang, C Cai, YH Su, S Wang, ZH Yu, HH Zhang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band is
recently reported by four pulsar timing array collaborations NANOGrav, EPTA, CPTA, and …

TASI lectures on dark matter models and direct detection

T Lin - arxiv preprint arxiv:1904.07915, 2019 - arxiv.org
These lectures provide an introduction to models and direct detection of dark matter. We
summarize the general features and motivations for candidates in the full dark matter mass …

Maximizing direct detection with highly interactive particle relic dark matter

G Elor, R McGehee, A Pierce - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter (DM)
scattering off nucleons. For DM masses in the range 10 keV–100 MeV, cross sections …

Search for disappearing tracks in proton-proton collisions at TeV

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract A search is presented for long-lived charged particles that decay within the CMS
detector and produce the signature of a disappearing track. Disappearing tracks are …

Axion-like particle (ALP) portal freeze-in dark matter confronting ALP search experiments

DK Ghosh, A Ghoshal, S Jeesun - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract The relic density of Dark Matter (DM) in the freeze-in scenario is highly dependent
on the evolution history of the universe and changes significantly in a non-standard (NS) …

Lower mass bounds on FIMP dark matter produced via freeze-in

F D'Eramo, A Lenoci - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs) are dark matter candidates that never
thermalize in the early universe and whose production takes place via decays and/or …

Confronting dark matter freeze-in during reheating with constraints from inflation

M Becker, E Copello, J Harz, J Lang… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the production of particle Dark Matter (DM) in a minimal freeze-in model
considering a non-instantaneous reheating phase after inflation. We demonstrate that for …