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Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experiment to search for dark matter interacting with electrons.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-24 The XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Arazi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , M. Auger , C. Balan , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Buetikofer , J. M. R. Cardoso , M. Cervantes , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , A. Di Giovanni , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , R. Itay , F. Kaether , B. Kaminsky , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , C. Levy , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , S. Macmullin , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Mayani Paras , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , G. Morana , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , O. Vitells , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Low-Energy Signals from the Formation of Dark Matter-Nuclear Bound States

Dark matter particles may bind with nuclei if there exists an attractive force of sufficient strength. We show that a dark photon mediator of mass $\sim (10 - 100)$ MeV that kinetically mixes with Standard Model electromagnetism at the…

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Bayes and present dark matter direct search status

Recently there has been a huge activity in the dark matter direct detection field, with the report of an excess from CoGeNT and CRESST along with the annual modulated signal of DAMA/Libra and the strong exclusion bound from XENON100. We…

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The Empirical Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter

In this article, I summarize and discuss the body of evidence which has accumulated in favor of dark matter in the form of approximately 10 GeV particles. This evidence includes the spectrum and angular distribution of gamma rays from the…

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Projected WIMP Sensitivity of the XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment

XENONnT is a dark matter direct detection experiment, utilizing 5.9 t of instrumented liquid xenon, located at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In this work, we predict the experimental background and project the sensitivity of…

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A Realistic Assessment of the Sensitivity of XENON10 and XENON100 to Light-Mass WIMPs

The underlaying assumptions and uncertainties involved in the derivation of WIMP exclusion limits from XENON10 and XENON100 detectors are examined. In view of these, recent claims of sensitivity to light-mass Weakly Interacting Massive…

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Search for Annual Modulation in Combined ANAIS 112 and COSINE 100 Data using Bayesian Model Comparison

We perform a Bayesian model comparison test between a sinusoidal modulation model and a constant value model using about three years of combined COSINE-100 and ANAIS-112 data. We use both uniform priors and normal priors (based on DAMA…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-28 Om Godse , Shantanu Desai

Form Factor Dark Matter

We present a dynamical alternative to inelastic dark matter as a way of reconciling the modulating signal seen at DAMA with null results at other direct detection experiments. The essential ingredient is a new form factor which introduces…

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The Nonlinear Cosmological Matter Power Spectrum with Massive Neutrinos I: The Halo Model

Measurements of the linear power spectrum of galaxies have placed tight constraints on neutrino masses. We extend the framework of the halo model of cosmological nonlinear matter clustering to include the effect of massive neutrino infall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kevork Abazajian , Eric R. Switzer , Scott Dodelson , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

First Results of the EDELWEISS WIMP Search using a 320 g Heat-and-Ionization Ge Detector

The EDELWEISS collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter using a 320 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in a low-background environment in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. No nuclear recoils are…

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Constraints on inelastic dark matter from the CDEX-1B experiment

We present limits on spin-independent inelastic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering using the 737.1 kg$\cdot$day dataset from the CDEX-1B experiment. Expected nuclear recoil spectra for various inelastic WIMP…

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Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and ionization yields generated by $\gamma$ interactions from…

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The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 tonne liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, which measures simultaneously the scintillation and…

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Calculated WIMP signals at the ANDES laboratory: comparison with northern and southern located dark matter detectors

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We extend the study of the performance of a prototype two-phase liquid xenon WIMP dark matter detector to recoil energies below 20 keV. We demonstrate a new method for obtaining the best estimate of the energies of events using a calibrated…

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Thermal Signals from Collective Electronic Excitations in Inhomogeneous Warm Dense Matter

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Extended Anomalous Foreground Emission in the WMAP 3-Year Data

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