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The momentum transfer dependence of the LSP-nucleus elastic scattering cross sections is studied. New imput SUSY parameters obtained in a phenomenologically allowed parameter space are used to calculate the coherent rate for various nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Vergados , T. S. Kosmas

Cosmic-ray accelerators capable of reaching ultra-high energies are expected to also produce very-high energy neutrinos via hadronic interactions within the source or its surrounding environment. Many of the candidate astrophysical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Tonia M. Venters , Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic

In recent years, the sensitivity of opto-mechanical force sensors has improved leading to increased interest in using these devices as particle detectors. In this study we consider scenarios where dark matter with mass close to the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Carlos Blanco , Bahaa Elshimy , Rafael F. Lang , Robert Orlando

Excess emission over expected diffuse astrophysical backgrounds in the direction of the Galactic center region has been claimed at various wavelengths, from radio to gamma rays. Among particle models advocated to explain such observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Eric Carlson , Stefano Profumo

The Fluorescence Telescope is one of the two telescopes on board the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an ultra-long-duration balloon mission that aims at the detection of Ultra High…

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II Mission (EUSO-SPB2) is a precursor for a next generation space observatory for multi-messenger astrophysics. The EUSO-SPB2 instrument will measure PeV and EeV-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 L. Wiencke , A. Olinto

We study the interaction between dark sectors by considering the momentum transfer caused by the dark matter scattering elastically within the dark energy fluid. Describing the dark scattering analogy to the Thomson scattering which couples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Xiao-Dong Xu , Bin Wang , Elcio Abdalla

Low energy interactions between particles are often characterised by elastic scattering. Just as electrons undergo Thomson scattering with photons, dark matter particles may experience an analogous form of momentum exchange with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Baldi , Fergus Simpson

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) is the most advanced balloon mission undertaken by the JEM-EUSO collaboration. EUSO-SPB2 is built on the experience of previous stratosphere missions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 George Filippatos , Mikhail Zotov

If dark matter consists of hidden-sector photons which kinetically mix with regular photons, a tiny oscillating electric-field component is present wherever we have dark matter. In the surface of conducting materials this induces a small…

We show that dark-matter candidates with large masses and large nuclear interaction cross sections are detectable with terrestrial radar systems. We develop our results in close comparison to successful radar searches for tiny meteoroids,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-14 Pawan Dhakal , Steven Prohira , Christopher V. Cappiello , John F. Beacom , Scott Palo , John Marino

The sub-keV mass range has long posed a challenge for the direct detection of dark matter via elastic scattering. In this Letter, we propose a new mechanism in which dark matter, assumed to be quadratically coupled to SM particles, scatters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhi-Han Liu , Shigeki Matsumoto , Jie Sheng , Chuan-Yang Xing

The distribution of dark matter in dwarf galaxies can have important implications on our understanding of galaxy formation as well as the particle physics properties of dark matter. However, accurately characterizing the dark matter content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Laura J. Chang , Lina Necib

As weak lensing surveys become deeper, they reveal more non-Gaussian aspects of the convergence field which can only be extracted using statistics beyond the power spectrum. In Cheng et al. (2020) we showed that the scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Sihao Cheng , Brice Ménard

We elaborate the possibility for a deformed extra space to be considered as the dark matter candidate. To perform calculations a class of two-dimensional extra metrics was considered in the framework of the multidimensional gravity. It was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-24 Vakhid A. Gani , Alexander E. Dmitriev , Sergey G. Rubin

We investigate the 3-D matter distribution at z~2 with high resolution (R ~ 40000) spectra of QSO pairs and groups obtained with the UVES spectrograph at ESO VLT. Our sample is unique for the number density of objects and the variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Cristiani , V. D'Odorico , F. Saitta , M. Viel , S. Bianchi , B. Boyle , S. Lopez , J. Maza , P. Outram

The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-23 Akio Kawasaki

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

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

Uncertainties of the MSSM predictions are due to an unknown SUSY breaking mechanism. To reduce these uncertainties, one usually imposes constraints on the MSSM parameter space. Recently, two new constraints became available, both from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Yu. Bogachev , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov , A. S. Nechaev