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Shedding Light on Mirror Dark Matter Using CDEX

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-08 v2

Abstract

Mirror dark matter, a hidden-sector counterpart to the Standard Model with identical particle content, could be detectable through photon-mirror-photon kinetic mixing (ϵ)(\epsilon). We present new constraints from CDEX-10 low-energy recoil data, establishing ϵ<2×1010\epsilon < 2 \times 10^{-10} for mirror nuclear dark matter in the 10--56 GeV mass range. Projections for CDEX-300 (with 95 days of exposure) show significantly improved sensitivity, reaching ϵ<3.75×1011\epsilon < 3.75 \times 10^{-11} for a local mirror halo temperature below 0.3 keV, surpassing existing constraints from LUX and positronium decays. These results demonstrate CDEX-300's unique capability to probe kinetic-mixing parameter space, providing stringent constraints on mirror dark matter models.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01486,
  title  = {Shedding Light on Mirror Dark Matter Using CDEX},
  author = {M. Tousif Raza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01486},
  year   = {2025}
}

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