Feebly interacting particle

Feebly interacting particles (FIPs) are subatomic particles defined by having extremely suppressed interactions with the Standard Model (SM) bosons and / or fermions. These particles are potential thermal dark matter candidates, extending the model of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to include weakly interacting sub-eV particles (WISPs) and others. FIP physics is also known as dark-sector physics.[1]

  1. ^ Lanfranchi, Gaia; Pospelov, Maxim; Schuster, Philip (4 November 2020). "The search for feebly-interacting particles". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 71: 279–313. arXiv:2011.02157. doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102419-055056. S2CID 226246183.