Relative measurement and extrapolation of the scintillation quenching factor of $$\alpha $$ α -particles in liquid argon using DEAP-3600 data by DEAP Collaboration

“…Abstract The knowledge of scintillation quenching of $$\alpha $$ α -particles plays a paramount role in understanding $$\alpha $$ α -induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct detection of dark matter experiments. We performed a relative measurement of scintillation quenching in the MeV energy region using radioactive isotopes ( $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn, $$^{218}$$ 218 Po and $$^{214}$$ 214 Po isotopes) present in trace amounts in the DEAP-3600 detector and quantified the uncertainty of extrapolating the quenching factor to the low-energy region.…”
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Dynamics of Generalized Tachyon Field in Teleparallel Gravity by Behnaz Fazlpour, Ali Banijamali

“…Scaling attractors are presented for both interacting and noninteracting dark energy and dark matter cases.…”
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Phenomenological Hints from a Class of String Motivated Model Constructions by Hans Peter Nilles

“…We analyse the properties of the specific model towards its possible tests at the LHC and the complementarity to direct dark matter searches.…”
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Graviatoms with de Sitter Interior by Irina Dymnikova, Michael Fil’chenkov

“…We present a graviatom with de Sitter interior as a new candidate to atomic dark matter generically related to a vacuum dark energy through its de Sitter vacuum interior. …”
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Thermodynamics of Ricci-Gauss-Bonnet Dark Energy by Ayesha Iqbal, Abdul Jawad

“…We investigate the validity of generalized second law of thermodynamics of a physical system comprising newly proposed dark energy model called Ricci-Gauss-Bonnet and cold dark matter enveloped by apparent horizon and event horizon in flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. …”
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Top quark flavor changing neutral currents at Future Linear Colliders by Jueid Adil, Kanemura Shinya

“…We first discuss the theoretical predictions of top quark FCNC decays into qH and qZ within a class of t–channel simplified dark matter models. For the existing bounds on the top quark FCNC interactions at the Large Hadron Collider, we estimate the production rates of top quark through FCNC interactions at future linear colliders for energies from 250 GeV to 3 TeV.…”
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What Remains to Be Discovered? by Pavel Nováček

“…Among the most promising challenges on the border between science and our imaginations, is an exploration of our universe, and potential contact with an extra-terrestrial civilisation, better understanding of space, time, matter, and energy (including “dark matter” and “dark energy”) and, of course, the “unthinkable” potential of the human brain. …”
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Dark Energy in Spherically Symmetric Universe Coupled with Brans-Dicke Scalar Field by Koijam Manihar Singh, Gauranga C. Samanta

“…Here, it is seen that the dark energy triggers the big bang and after that much of the dark energy reduces to dark matter. One peculiarity in such a model is that the scalar field is prevalent eternally; it never tends to zero.…”
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Curvature-Restored Gauge Invariance and Ultraviolet Naturalness by Durmuş Ali Demir

“…Gravity arises correctly if new physics exists with at least 63 more bosons than fermions, with no need to interact with the SM and with dark matter as a natural harbinger. It can source various cosmological, astrophysical, and collider phenomena depending on its spectrum and couplings to the SM.…”
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On the structural stability of a simple cosmological model in R + αR2 theory of gravity by Orest Hrycyna

“…We show that, in both frames, there are stable de Sitter states where the expansion of the Hubble function naturally includes terms corresponding to an effective dark matter component. Using the invariant centre manifold, we demonstrate that, in the Einstein frame, there exists a zero-measure set of initial conditions that lead from an unstable to a stable de Sitter state. …”
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How Do We Get Paid for This? The Relationship Between Strategic Design Management and Pricing Power by Ian D. Parkman

“…This paper provides context to this relationship by introducing the variable of pricing power as a potential element of unobserved “dark matter” that clarifies how design-based differentiation results in product performance. …”
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The Transcribed-Ultraconserved Regions: A Novel Class of Long Noncoding RNAs Involved in Cancer Susceptibility by Paola Scaruffi

“…A large proportion of the transcriptional output is represented by protein noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) that arise from the “dark matter” of the genome. Focus on such sequences has revealed numerous RNA subtypes with several functions in RNA processing and gene expression regulation, and deep sequencing studies imply that many remain to be discovered. …”
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Neutral-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering off Xe Isotopes by P. Pirinen, J. Suhonen, E. Ydrefors

“…Large liquid xenon detectors aiming for dark matter direct detection will soon become viable tools also for investigating neutrino physics. …”
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Discovering and Characterizing Hidden Variables Using a Novel Neural Network Architecture: LO-Net by Soumi Ray, Tim Oates

“…Scientific inquiry has uncovered many such entities, such as black holes and dark matter. We claim that theoretical entities, or hidden variables, are important for the development of concepts within the lifetime of an individual and present a novel neural network architecture that solves three problems related to theoretical entities: (1) discovering that they exist, (2) determining their number, and (3) computing their values. …”
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The current status of fine-tuning in supersymmetry by Melissa van Beekveld, Sascha Caron, Roberto Ruiz de Austri

“…In addition, we determine the impact of current and future dark matter direct detection and collider experiments on the fine-tuning. …”
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MicroBlack Holes Thermodynamics in the Presence of Quantum Gravity Effects by H. Soltani, A. Damavandi Kamali, K. Nozari

“…In this framework existence of black holes remnants as a possible candidate for dark matter is discussed. We study probability of black hole production in the Large Hadronic Collider (LHC) and we show this rate decreasing for sufficiently large values of the GUP parameter.…”
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Constraints on the Dark Side of the Universe and Observational Hubble Parameter Data by Tong-Jie Zhang, Cong Ma, Tian Lan

“…This paper is a review on the observational Hubble parameter data that have gained increasing attention in recent years for their illuminating power on the dark side of the universe: the dark matter, dark energy, and the dark age. Currently, there are two major methods of independent observational H(z) measurement, which we summarize as the “differential age method” and the “radial BAO size method.” …”
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The NOMAD Experiment at CERN by F. Vannucci

“…The main aim of the experiment was to search for the oscillation νμ into ντ, in a region of mass compatible with the prescriptions of the hot dark matter hypothesis, which predicted a ντ mass in the range of 1–10 eV/c2. …”
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Higgs Information and NMSSM at the Large Hadron Collider by Surabhi Gupta, Sudhir Kumar Gupta

“…Our findings show the most preferred values of m0, m1/2, A0, tanβ, λ, μeff, neutralino lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) mχ~10, lighter chargino mχ~1±, singlino mχ~50, and gluino mg~ to be around 1.93 TeV, 1.78 TeV, −3.62 TeV, 27.5, 0.012, 665.7 GeV, 740 GeV, 790 GeV, 11.24 TeV, and 3.70 TeV, respectively, that is compatible with the relic density of dark matter.…”
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ALP leptogenesis: non-thermal right-handed neutrinos from axions by Martina Cataldi, Alberto Mariotti, Filippo Sala, Miguel Vanvlasselaer

“…We finally provide a viable supersymmetric realisation of ALP leptogenesis where the ALP is the R-axion, which accommodates GeV gravitino dark matter and predicts RHN below 10 TeV.…”
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