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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

We study luminous dark matter signals in models with inelastic scattering. Dark matter $\chi_1$ that scatters inelastically off elements in the Earth is kicked into an excited state $\chi_2$ that can subsequently decay into a monoenergetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Joshua Eby , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik , Graham D. Kribs

The property of dark matter is unknown so far. However, a model-independent classification of dark matter candidates can be achieved by using various symmetries, as done in the Standard Model. Fermionic dark matter has been researched…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-25 Ke-Yun Wu , Zhao-Hua Xiong

We explore a novel class of multi-particle dark sectors, called Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter (iBDM). These models are constructed by combining properties of particles that scatter off matter by making transitions to heavier states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Gian F. Giudice , Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

We show that the rate for dark matter-electron scattering in an arbitrary material is determined by an experimentally measurable quantity, the complex dielectric function, for any dark matter interaction that couples to electron density.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-16 Yonit Hochberg , Yonatan Kahn , Noah Kurinsky , Benjamin V. Lehmann , To Chin Yu , Karl K. Berggren

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Dan Hooper

Detections of non-gravitational interactions of massive dark matter (DM) with visible sector so far have given null results. The DM may communicate with the ordinary matter only through gravitational interaction. Besides, the majority of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Wenyu Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Hang Zhou , Bin Zhu

The dark matter interpretation for a recent observation of excessive electron recoil events at the XENON1T detector seems challenging because its velocity is not large enough to give rise to recoiling electrons of $\mathcal{O}({\rm keV})$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Haider Alhazmi , Doojin Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Gopolang Mohlabeng , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

It is usually assumed that dark matter direct detection is sensitive to a large fraction of the dark matter (DM) velocity distribution. We propose an alternative form of dark matter-nucleus scattering which only probes a narrow range of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox

The trouble in detecting low mass dark matter due to its low kinetic energy can be ameliorated in the boosted dark matter framework, where a sub-population of galactic dark matter attains very high energy after being up-scattered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Sk Jeesun

Motivated by the recently reported excess of electron recoil events by the XENON1T experiment, we propose low scale seesaw scenarios for light neutrino masses within $U(1)_X$ gauge extension of the standard model that also predicts stable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Debasish Borah , Satyabrata Mahapatra , Narendra Sahu

We propose a novel dark matter (DM) detection strategy for the models with non-minimal dark sector. The main ingredients in the underlying DM scenario are a boosted DM particle and a heavier dark sector state. The relativistic DM impinged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

We consider neutrinos scattering off Milky Way dark matter and the impact of this scattering on supernovae neutrinos. This can take the form of attenuation on the initial flux of neutrinos and a time-delayed flux of scattered neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Garv Chauhan , R. Andrew Gustafson , Gonzalo Herrera , Taj Johnson , Ian Shoemaker

We analyze future direct data matter detection experiments using Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators with light, $\lesssim 100$ MeV mass mediators. We compare the nuclear recoil energy spectra from these operators to the predicted high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-29 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari

In this paper, we compute the contribution to the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section from new physics models in the neutrino sector. We use this information to calculate the maximum value of the so-called neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-23 C. Boehm , D. G. Cerdeno , P. A. N. Machado , A. Olivares-Del Campo , E. Perdomo , E. Reid

A fraction of the dark matter may consist of a particle species that interacts much more strongly with the Standard Model than a typical weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) of similar mass. Such a strongly interacting dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-12 David McKeen , Marianne Moore , David E. Morrissey , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani

Direct detection experiments and the interpretation of their results are sensitive to the velocity structure of the dark matter in our galactic halo. In this work, we extend the formalism that deals with such astrophysics-driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Elias Bernreuther , Patrick J. Fox , Benjamin Lillard , Anna-Maria Taki , Tien-Tien Yu

We demonstrate precisely what particle physics information can be extracted from a single direct detection observation of dark matter while making absolutely no assumptions about the local velocity distribution and local density of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-18 Patrick J. Fox , Graham D. Kribs , Tim M. P. Tait

Recent observations from PAMELA, FERMI, and ATIC point to a new source of high energy cosmic rays. If these signals are due to annihilating dark matter, then the annihilation cross section in the present day must be substantially larger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Buckley Patrick J. Fox

The scattering of light dark matter off thermal electrons inside the Sun produces a "fast" sub-component of the dark matter flux that may be detectable in underground experiments. We update and extend previous work by analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-27 Haipeng An , Haoming Nie , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz