Astrophysical tests of dark matter self-interactions

S Adhikari, A Banerjee, KK Boddy… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) arises generically in scenarios for physics beyond the
Standard Model that have dark sectors with light mediators or strong dynamics. The self …

Closing the window on WIMP Dark Matter

S Bottaro, D Buttazzo, M Costa, R Franceschini… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We study scenarios where Dark Matter is a weakly interacting particle (WIMP) embedded in
an ElectroWeak multiplet. In particular, we consider real SU (2) representations with zero …

Cosmic-ray antinuclei as messengers of new physics: status and outlook for the new decade

P Von Doetinchem, K Perez, T Aramaki… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise measurement of cosmic-ray antinuclei serves as an important means for
identifying the nature of dark matter and other new astrophysical phenomena, and could be …

Supercool composite dark matter beyond 100 TeV

I Baldes, Y Gouttenoire, F Sala, G Servant - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Dark Matter could be a composite state of a confining sector with an approximate
scale symmetry. We consider the case where the associated pseudo-Goldstone boson, the …

The last complex WIMPs standing

S Bottaro, D Buttazzo, M Costa, R Franceschini… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We continue the study of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) started in Bottaro et
al.(Eur Phys JC 82: 31, 2022), focusing on a single complex electroweak n-plet with non …

Symmetry of cosmological observables, a mirror world dark sector, and the Hubble constant

FY Cyr-Racine, F Ge, L Knox - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We find that a uniform scaling of the gravitational free-fall rates and photon-electron
scattering rate leaves most dimensionless cosmological observables nearly invariant. This …

TeV-scale thermal WIMPs: unitarity and its consequences

J Smirnov, JF Beacom - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We reexamine unitarity bounds on the annihilation cross section of thermal weakly
interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. For high-mass pointlike dark matter, it is …

Heating neutron stars with inelastic dark matter and relativistic targets

G Alvarez, A Joglekar, M Phoroutan-Mehr, HB Yu - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The dense environment of neutron stars makes them an excellent target for probing dark
matter interactions with the Standard Model. We study neutron star heating from capture of …

BBN constraints on MeV-scale dark sectors. Part II: Electromagnetic decays

M Hufnagel, K Schmidt-Hoberg… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Meta-stable dark sector particles decaying into electrons or photons may non-trivially
change the Hubble rate, lead to entropy injection into the thermal bath of Standard Model …

Non-Abelian electric field correlator at NLO for dark matter relic abundance and quarkonium transport

T Binder, K Mukaida, B Scheihing-Hitschfeld… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We perform a complete next-to-leading order calculation of the non-Abelian electric
field correlator in a SU (N c) plasma, which encodes properties of the plasma relevant for …