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We consider a U (1) B - L model with a Z ′ portal Dirac fermion dark matter (DM) χ of low mass which couples very weakly to the B - L gauge boson Z ′ . An arbitrary B - L charge Q ≠ ± 1 , ± 3 of the DM χ ensures its stability. Motivated by the sensitivity reach of forthcoming "Lifetime Frontier" experiments, we focus on the Z ′ mass, m Z ′ , in the sub-GeV to few GeV range. To evaluate the DM relic abundance, we examine both the freeze-out and freeze-in DM scenarios. For the freeze-out scenario, we show that the observed DM abundance is reproduced near the Z ′ resonance, m χ ≃ m Z ′ / 2 , where m χ is the DM mass. For the freeze-in scenario, we focus on m χ ≪ m Z ′ . We show that for a fixed value of m Z ′ , g BL values roughly scale as 1/Q to reproduce the observed DM abundance. For various Q values in the range between 10 - 6 and 10 2 , we show that the gauge coupling values g BL needed to reproduce the observed DM abundance lie in the search reach of future planned and/or proposed experiments such as FASER, Belle-II, LDMX, and SHiP. In the freeze-in case, the Q values to realize observable g BL values are found to be much smaller than that in the freeze-out case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the gravitational wave spectrum generated by string-wall structures in an S O (10) (S p i n (10)) based scenario of pseudo-Goldstone boson dark matter (pGDM) particle. This dark matter candidate is a linear combination of the Standard Model (SM) singlets present in the 126 and 16 dimensional Higgs fields. The Higgs 126-plet vacuum expectation value (VEV) 〈 126 H 〉 leaves unbroken the Z 2 subgroup of Z 4 , the center of S O (10). Among other things, this yields topologically stable cosmic strings with a string tension μ ∼ 〈 126 H 〉 2. The subsequent (spontaneous) breaking of Z 2 at a significantly lower scale by the 16-plet VEV 〈 16 H 〉 leads to the appearance of domain walls bounded by the strings produced earlier. We display the gravitational wave spectrum for Gμ values varying between 10 − 15 and 10 − 9 (〈 126 H 〉 ∼ 10 11 - 1014 GeV), and 〈 16 H 〉 ∼ 0.1 - 102 TeV range (G denotes Newton's constant.) These predictions can be tested, as we show, by a variety of (proposed) experiments including LISA, ET, CE and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivated by the recently reported measurement of the W boson mass M W = 80.4335 ± 0.0094 GeV by the CDF collaboration, we propose a type III seesaw extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) which also includes an R-parity violating term. Without taking potential SUSY radiative corrections into account, we show that the CDF measurement of M W and the LEP measurement of the ρ parameter can be simultaneously accommodated at the 2 σ level. A long-lived gravitino in a few GeV mass range is a unique viable dark matter candidate in this framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]