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Distinguishing a dark matter interaction from an astrophysical neutrino-induced interaction will be major challenge for future direct dark matter searches. In this paper, we consider this issue within non-relativistic Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari

Atmospheric and solar neutrinos scattering coherently off target nuclei will be an important background source for the next generation of direct dark matter searches. In this work we focus on calcium tungstate as target material. For…

We investigate the direct detection phenomenology of a class of dark matter (DM) models in which DM does not directly interact with nuclei, {but rather} the products of its annihilation do. When these annihilation products are very light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 John F. Cherry , Mads T. Frandsen , Ian M. Shoemaker

We present a new technique for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) searches and a new use of neutrino observatories. DM-electron scattering in an observatory can excite or ionize target molecules, which then produce light that can be detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Rebecca K. Leane , John F. Beacom

Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as 10^{-39} cm^2, while current dark matter experiments have sensitivities to WIMP coherent scattering cross sections five orders of magnitude smaller; future experiments plan to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jocelyn Monroe , Peter Fisher

Despite strong evidence for the existence of large amounts of dark matter (DM) in our Universe, there is no direct indication of its presence in our own solar system. All estimates of the local DM density rely on extrapolating results on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-23 Bradley J. Kavanagh , Timon Emken , Riccardo Catena

First observation of solar neutrinos through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering by dark matter (DM) direct detection (DD) experiments makes the study of the neutrino fog of the most relevance. This irreducible neutrino background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Laura Duque , J. M. Lamprea , Omar G. Miranda

Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Andrea Gaspert , Pietro Giampa , David E. Morrissey

Astronomical and cosmological observations indicate that dark matter should interact very weakly with the electromagnetic radiation. Nevertheless, the existence of such interactions is not precluded by observations nor by theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Alejandro Ibarra , Merlin Reichard , Gaurav Tomar

We investigate a possibility of neutralino dark matter (DM) direct detection in the future electron accelerators. That is counting of high p_T electron recoil events by neutralinos in halo. If selectron and neutralino masses would be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Junji Hisano , Minoru Nagai , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Masato Senami

We study the probing prospects of cosmic ray boosted dark matter (DM) in the framework of simplified electron-philic dark photon model. Focusing on the dark matter and dark photon masses around keV $\sim $ MeV scale, we consider the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-13 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang

Next generation direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments will have unprecedented capabilities to explore coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) complementary to dedicated neutrino experiments. We demonstrate that future DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Thomas Schwemberger , Volodymyr Takhistov , Tien-Tien Yu

We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

Recent sky surveys have discovered a large number of stellar substructures. It is highly likely that there are dark matter (DM) counterparts to these stellar substructures. We examine the implications of DM substructures for electron recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-17 Tarak Nath Maity , Ranjan Laha

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

Although many astrophysical and cosmological observations point towards the existence of Dark Matter (DM), the nature of the DM particle has not been clarified to date. In this paper, we investigate a minimal model with a vector DM (VDM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Glaus , M. Mühlleitner , J. Müller , S. Patel , R. Santos

We present a comprehensive framework for interpreting electron recoil signals induced by fast-moving dark matter (DM), applicable across a wide range of theoretically motivated models. Amid both null results in conventional weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-07 Haider Alhazmi , Doojin Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Aishah Sumayli

Low-threshold dark matter detectors, in particular cryogenic detectors based on dielectric materials, are among the best tools for probing sub-GeV dark matter masses. In the coming years detectors of this type will become sensitive to solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 James B. Dent , Barry A. Friedman , Jayden L. Newstead , Subir Sabharwal

Dark matter (DM)-electron scattering is a prime target of a number of direct DM detection experiments and constitutes a promising avenue for exploring interactions of DM in the sub-GeV mass-range, challenging to probe with nuclear recoils.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Muping Chen , Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov

Direct and indirect dark matter detection relies on the scattering of the dark matter candidate on nucleons or nuclei. Here, attention is focused on dark matter candidates (neutralinos) predicted in the minimal supersymmetric standard model…

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