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We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken underground in the NEXUS facility located at Fermilab with an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-17 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. Alonso-González , J. Anczarski , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. Ataee Langroudy , C. Bathurst , R. Bhattacharyya , A. J. Biffl , P. L. Brink , M. Buchanan , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , J. -H. Chen , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , P. Cushman , R. Cyna , S. Das , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , M. Elwan , S. Fallows , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , S. L. Franzen , A. Gevorgian , M. Ghaith , G. Godden , J. Golatkar , S. R. Golwala , R. Gualtieri , J. Hall , S. A. S. Harms , C. Hays , B. A. Hines , Z. Hong , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , V. K. S. Kashyap , S. T. D. Keller , M. H. Kelsey , K. T. Kennard , Z. Kromer , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , M. Lee , J. Leyva , B. Lichtenberg , J. Liu , Y. Liu , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , R. López Noé , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , J. S. Mammo , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , P. C. McNamara , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , É. Michaud , E. Michielin , K. Mickelson , N. Mirabolfathi , M. Mirzakhani , B. Mohanty , D. Mondal , D. Monteiro , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , L. Pandey , S. Pandey , R. Partridge , P. K. Patel , D. S. Pedreros , W. Peng , W. L. Perry , R. Podviianiuk , M. Potts , S. S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , M. Rios , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , L. Rosado Del Rio , J. L. Ryan , T. Saab , D. Sadek , B. Sadoulet , S. P. Sahoo , I. Saikia , S. Salehi , J. Sander , B. Sandoval , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , B. Serfass , A. E. Sharbaugh , R. S. Shenoy , A. Simchony , P. Sinervo , Z. J. Smith , R. Soni , K. Stifter , J. Street , M. Stukel , H. Sun , E. Tanner , N. Tenpas , D. Toback , A. N. Villano , J. Viol , B. von Krosigk , Y. Wang , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , A. Zuniga , M. J. Zurowski

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

We explore the possibility of using superfluid helium for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter (DM). We discuss the relevant phenomenology resulting from the scattering of an incident dark matter particle on a Helium nucleus. Rather than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Yining You , Jordan Smolinsky , Wei Xue , Konstantin T. Matchev , Keegan Gunther , Yoonseok Lee , Tarek Saab

Current and most upcoming neutrino detectors can only reach a dark matter annihilation cross section to neutrinos larger than the standard freeze-out value, but they open intriguing detection avenues for non-standard dark matter paradigms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li , Dibyendu Nanda

The NuMI facility at Fermilab produces a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, designed to study neutrino oscillations. This beam may also be a source of dark matter particles produced through a light mediator. We search…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-13 S. Abubakar , M. Acero , B. Acharya , P. Adamson , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , E. F. Bannister , A. Barros , A. Bat , T. Bezerra , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , B. Brahma , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , J. P. Cesar , R. Chirco , S. Choate , B. C. Choudhary , O. T. K. Chow , A. Christensen , M. F. Cicala , T. E. Coan , T. Contreras , A. Cooleybeck , D. Coveyou , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , Z. Djurcic , K. Dobbs , D. Duenas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , R. Ehrlich , E. Ewart , P. Filip , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , R. Group , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , J. M. Hays , M. He , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , T. Horoho , X. Huang , A. Ivanova , I. Kakorin , A. Kalitkina , D. M. Kaplan , A. Khanam , B. Kirezli , J. Kleykamp , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , R. Kralik , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , J. Lesmeister , A. Lister , J. A. Lock , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. T. Manoharan , M. Manrique Plata , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , A. Medhi , B. Mehta , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , C. Murthy , D. Myers , J. Nachtman , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , O. Neogi , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , A. Pal , J. Paley , L. Panda , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , R. Petti , L. R. Prais , A. Rafique , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , C. Reynolds , E. Robles , P. Roy , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sanchez Falero , P. Shanahan , P. Sharma , A. Sheshukov , Shivam , A. Shmakov , W. Shorrock , S. Shukla , I. Singh , V. Singh , S. Singh Chhibra , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , C. Sullivan , L. Suter , A. Sutton , S. Swain , A. Sztuc , N. Talukdar , P. Tas , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , M. Titus , Y. Torun , D. Tran , J. Trokan-Tenorio , J. Urheim , B. Utt , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , K. J. Vockerodt , A. V. Waldron , M. Wallbank , C. Weber , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , J. Wolcott , S. Wu , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , B. Yaeggy , A. Yahaya , A. Yankelevich , K. Yonehara , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , R. Zwaska

Over the last years both cosmic-ray antiproton measurements and direct dark matter searches have proved particularly effective in constraining the nature of dark matter candidates. The present work focusses on these two types of constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-09 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , Miguel Pato , Stefan Vogl

We explore the prospect of constraining light mediators at the next generation direct detection dark matter detectors through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-07 Anirban Majumdar , D. K. Papoulias , Rahul Srivastava

Since the report of the PeV-TeV neutrinos by the IceCube Collaboration, various particle physics models have been proposed to explain the neutrino spectrum by dark matter particles decaying into neutrinos and other Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Nagisa Hiroshima , Ryuichiro Kitano , Kazunori Kohri , Kohta Murase

Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with electrons can excite electrons occupying molecular orbitals in a scattering event. In particular, aromatic compounds such as benzene or xylene have an electronic excitation energy of a few eV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Carlos Blanco , J. I. Collar , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin Lillard

We demonstrate the prompt-delayed signals induced by knockout neutrons from the quasi-elastic scattering in neutrino experiments provides a new avenue for detecting light dark matter. As an illustration, we consider the detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuanlin Gong , Feiran Lin , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu

Among the most stringent constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section are those derived from observations of dwarf galaxies by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. As current (e.g., Dark Energy Survey, DES) and future (Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Chen He , Keith Bechtol , Andrew P. Hearin , Dan Hooper

Non-relativistic Dark Matter (DM) can be accelerated by scattering on high-energy cosmic-ray (CR) electrons. This process leads to a sub-population of relativistic or semi-relativistic DM which extends the experimental reach for direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Ian M. Shoemaker , Natalia Tapia Arellano

Neutrino and dark matter experiments with large-volume ($\gtrsim 1$ ton) detectors can provide excellent sensitivity to signals induced by energetic light dark matter coming from the present universe. Taking boosted dark matter as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Doojin Kim , Pedro A. N. Machado , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

We investigate early discovery signals for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider without using information about missing transverse energy. Instead we use cuts on the number of jets and isolated leptons (electrons and/or muons). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-19 Joakim Edsjo , Erik Lundstrom , Sara Rydbeck , Jorgen Sjolin

We propose a new application of single molecule magnet crystals: their use as "magnetic bubble chambers" for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter. The spins in these macroscopic crystals effectively act as independent nano-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Philip C. Bunting , Giorgio Gratta , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We determine the prospects for direct and indirect detection of thermal relic neutralinos in supersymmetric theories with multi-TeV squarks and sleptons. We consider the concrete example of the focus point region of minimal supergravity,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Patrick Draper , Jonathan Feng , Philipp Kant , Stefano Profumo , David Sanford

{\tenrm The possibility of detecting supersymmetric dark matter is examined within the framework of the minimal supergravity model (MSGM), where the $\tilde{Z}_{1}$ is the LSP for almost the entire parameter space. A brief discussion is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Arnowitt , Pran Nath

Superheavy dark matter may show its presence in high energy neutrino signals detected on earth. From the latest results of IceCube, we could set the strongest lower bound on the lifetime of dark matter beyond 100 TeV around $10^{28} {\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-28 Carsten Rott , Kazunori Kohri , Seong Chan Park

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

We propose a search for low mass dark matter particles through momentum recoils caused by their scattering from trapped, nm-scale objects. Our projections show that even with a modest array of fg-mass sensors, parameter-space beyond the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-10 Gadi Afek , Daniel Carney , David C. Moore