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We briefly review scenarios with feebly interacting massive particles (FIMPs) as dark matter candidates. The discussion covers issues with dark matter production in the early universe as well as signatures of FIMPs at the high energy and high intensity frontier as well as in astroparticle and cosmology.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded in part by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (Project title: Beyond Standard Model Physics with Neutrino and Dark Matter at Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers, Grant no: 6304-2). SC is supported by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship DARKMAP. The work of AP was carried out within the scientific program “Particle Physics and Cosmology” of the Russian National Center for Physics and Mathematics.

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  1. LAPTh, CNRS,USMB, 9 chemin de Bellevue, Annecy, 74940, France

    G. Bélanger

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  3. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

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Bélanger, G., Chakraborti, S. & Pukhov, A. Feebly interacting dark matter. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 233, 2135–2141 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01134-1

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