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Resolving XENON Excess With Decaying Cold Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-05-26 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a decaying cold dark matter model to explain the excess of electron recoil observed at the XENON1T experiment. In this scenario, the daughter dark matter from the parent dark matter decay easily obtains velocity large enough to saturate the peak of the electron recoil energy around 2.5 keV, and the observed signal rate can be fulfilled by the parent dark matter with a mass of order 10-200 MeV and a lifetime larger than the age of Universe. We verify that this model is consistent with experimental limits from dark matter detections, Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2012.10827,
  title  = {Resolving XENON Excess With Decaying Cold Dark Matter},
  author = {Shuai Xu and Sibo Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10827},
  year   = {2021}
}

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v3: to match the published version

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