WISPedia -- the WISPs Encyclopedia

TL;DR

WISPedia provides a modular, model-centric catalogue of Weakly Interacting Slim Particles organized by spin, offering concise definitions, particle content, interactions, and bounds for each framework. It emphasizes a uniform format, links to foundational literature, and flags phenomenological applications via symbolic tags to aid navigation and cross-linking. The encyclopedia is designed as a living reference, updated through community input to reflect new models and evolving experimental constraints. By structuring the landscape this way, the work aims to streamline exploration of WISPs, facilitate cross-model comparisons, and support rapid retrieval for theory development, experimental planning, and literature discovery.

Abstract

The Weakly-Interacting Slim Particle encyclopedia (WISPedia) is a comprehensive reference work dedicated to the systematic compilation of theoretical models, Effective Field Theories, and frameworks involving Weakly Interacting Slim Particles (WISPs): a broad class of light, feebly coupled particles proposed in extensions of the Standard Model. In current times, where the number of models largely surpasses the number of new physics signals, this encyclopedia aims to provide a concise reference of their landscape. The goal is to provide a useful tool to the community to navigate among them. It does not aim to review all the models in detail, but to define their essential characteristics, and point the reader to useful and minimal material such as the original sources, review articles, tools and general compilations of bounds. Hence, the format of this reference resembles the direct style of a model encyclopedia of WISPs.

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• Figure 1: Schematic representation of the macro categories of the WISPedia. Note that the models listed in this figure are illustrative examples and do not constitute an exhaustive list. For the sake of visual clarity, not every candidate discussed in the text is displayed here.