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The SIMP Miracle

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We present a new paradigm for achieving thermal relic dark matter. The mechanism arises when a nearly secluded dark sector is thermalized with the Standard Model after reheating. The freezeout process is a number-changing 3->2 annihilation of strongly-interacting-massive-particles (SIMPs) in the dark sector, and points to sub-GeV dark matter. The couplings to the visible sector, necessary for maintaining thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model, imply measurable signals that will allow coverage of a significant part of the parameter space with future indirect- and direct-detection experiments and via direct production of dark matter at colliders. Moreover, 3->2 annihilations typically predict sizable 2->2 self-interactions which naturally address the `core vs. cusp' and `too-big-to-fail' small structure problems.

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Strongly Interacting Dark Matter admixed Neutron Stars

hep-ph · 2025-03-25 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Strongly interacting dark matter described by a first-principles G2 gauge-theory equation of state can be mixed into neutron stars while remaining compatible with current observational constraints.

Dark Matter on a Slide

hep-ph · 2026-04-07 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Dark pions stabilized by U(1) flavor symmetry in an SU(3)/SO(3) dark sector obtain the correct thermal relic density through up-scatterings to heavier mesons and dark eta decays, producing LHC signals from long-lived particle showers.

Boosted dark matter via semi-annihilation in a radiative neutrino mass model

hep-ph · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

An explicit model is built where Dirac fermion dark matter semi-annihilates to boosted dark matter plus neutrinos, with two-loop radiative neutrino masses, requiring a mediator mass of O(1) MeV to reach O(10^{-36}) cm² scattering cross section detectable in DUNE and DARWIN.

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