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We present new observational constraints on the elastic scattering of dark matter with electrons for dark matter masses between 10 keV and 1 TeV. We consider scenarios in which the momentum-transfer cross section has a power-law dependence…

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The parity-violating (PV) nucleon-nucleon ($N\!N$) interaction in the three-nucleon system is investigated using pionless effective field theory ($\mathrm{EFT}(/\!\!\!\pi)$). This work shows that a next-to-leading order (NLO) PV three-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 Jared Vanasse

Supernovae provide a unique opportunity for large scale parity violation because they are dominated by neutrinos. We calculate the parity violating asymmetry A of neutrino emission in a strong magnetic field. We assume the neutrinos…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. J. Horowitz , Gang Li

Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single-electron ionization signals, which are detectable with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-01 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Tomer Volansky

Massive photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model with a hidden sector where dark matter is secluded. They are vector bosons mediating the interaction between dark matter particles and can be produced in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-07 Viviana Scherini

In rich dark sector models, dark photons heavier than tens of MeV can behave as semi-visible particles: their decays contain both visible and invisible final states. We present models containing multiple dark fermions which allow for such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Asli M. Abdullahi , Matheus Hostert , Daniele Massaro , Silvia Pascoli

We introduce the study of neutrino scattering off protons in the deeply virtual kinematics, which describes under a unified formalism elastic and deep inelastic neutrino scattering. A real final state photon and a recoiling nucleon are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Amore , Claudio Coriano' , Marco Guzzi

We show that the process of Coherent Elastic neutrino (v) Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at nuclear reactor experiments has significant sensitivity to the so-called X17 particle, which has been invoked to explain the ATOMKI anomaly, wherein…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Johan Rathsman , Joakim Cederkäll , Yasar Hicyilmaz , Else Lytken , Stefano Moretti

Dark matter direct detection experiments have become excellent low-energy neutrino detectors. We present a few novel ideas to probe Beyond the Standard Model physics from neutrinos at these experiments. First, we discuss signatures arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Gonzalo Herrera

The parity-conserving single-spin beam asymmetry of elastic electron-proton scattering is induced by an absorptive part of the two-photon exchange amplitude. We demonstrate that this asymmetry has logarithmic and double-logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Andrei Afanasev , N. P. Merenkov

Light scattering is one of the most established wave phenomena in optics, lying at the heart of light-matter interactions and of crucial importance for nanophotonic applications. Passivity, causality and energy conservation imply strict…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Seunghwi Kim , Sergey Lepeshov , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alù

Theoretical challenges to understand Dark Matter and Dark Energy suggest the existence of low-mass and weakly coupling fields in the universe. The quasi-parallel photon-photon collision system (QPS) can provide chances to probe the resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Kensuke Homma

After the first measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CENNS) by the COHERENT Collaboration, it is expected that new experiments will confirm the observation. Such measurements will allow to put stronger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 B. C. Cañas , E. A. Garcés , O. G. Miranda , A. Parada

The data collected by ATIC, PPB-BETS, FERMI-LAT and HESS all indicate that there is an electron/positron excess in the cosmic ray energy spectrum above $\sim$ 100 GeV, although different instrumental teams do not agree on the detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-18 Yi-Zhong Fan , Bing Zhang , Jin Chang

The parity violating longitudinal asymmetry ${\cal A}$ is calculated for quasielastic electron scattering. We use a variety of relativistic mean field models for the response of nuclear matter and $^{12}$C at a momentum transfer of q=550…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

We propose detecting dark photons (DP), a major candidate for wave dark matter, through polarimetry. The DP can modify Maxwell's equations due to its kinetic mixing with regular photons, inducing an oscillating component in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Fiesta Ting Yan Leung , Tao Liu , Sida Lu , Jing Ren , Cheuk Kan Kelvin Yue , Kaifeng Zheng

We have considered the processes which lead to elastic scattering between two far ultraviolet or X--ray photons while they propagate inside a solid, modeled as a simple electron gas. The new ingredient, with respect to the standard theory…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 R. Martoňák , E. Tosatti

I investigate the elastic electron scattering off nuclei far from the stability line. The effects of the neutron and proton skins and halos on the differential cross sections are explored. Examples are given for the charge distribution in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. A. Bertulani

In this talk I discuss the relevance of atomic physics in understanding some important questions about elementary particle physics. A particular attention is devoted to atomic parity violation measurements which seem to suggest new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Casalbuoni

In this paper, we study the effects of the unparticles on the parity-violating asymmetry for the low energy electron-electron scattering, $e^-e^-\to e^-e^-$. Using the data from the E158 experiment at SLAC we extract the limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-23 K. O. Ozansoy