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Mirror Dark Matter and Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-08-17 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Recently, the XENON1T experiment has reported the possible detection of an excess in the electronic recoil spectrum. Such an excess may indicate the presence of new physics. In this work, we suggest that the scattering of mirror electrons with ordinary electrons through photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing with parameter ϵ1012(ne/0.2cm3)1/2(vc0/5×109 cm s1)1/2\epsilon \sim 10^{-12}(n_{\rm e'}/0.2{\rm cm^{-3}})^{-1/2}({v_{\rm c}^0/5\times 10^{9}~{\rm cm~s^{-1}}})^{1/2} may account for the excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T, where nen_{\rm e'} is the density of mirror electron and vc0v_{\rm c}^0 is the cutoff velocity of the mirror electron arriving at the earth. Interestingly, this parameter to interpret the excess of XENON1T electronic recoil spectrum are consistent with the constrains of Darkside50.

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@article{arxiv.2006.14577,
  title  = {Mirror Dark Matter and Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T},
  author = {Lei Zu and Guan-Wen Yuan and Lei Feng and Yi-Zhong Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14577},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures