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We present constraints on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) through the mechanism of being boosted by cosmic rays (CRs). We utilize the nuclear recoil data from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment for this purpose. Without the mechanism of boosted dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Atanu Guha , Jong-Chul Park

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

Dark matter candidates with electromagnetic dipole moments can arise as dark baryons in gauge-mediated or technicolor models. These dark matter candidates interact with nuclei in direct detection experiments mainly through magnetic and/or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-04 Tom Banks , Jean-François Fortin , Scott Thomas

Light sub-GeV dark matter (DM) constitutes an underexplored target, beyond the optimized sensitivity of typical direct DM detection experiments. We comprehensively investigate hadrophilic light DM produced from cosmic-ray collisions with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Carlos A. Argüelles , Víctor Muñoz , Ian M. Shoemaker , Volodymyr Takhistov

Direct detection experiments utilizing electronic excitations are spearheading the search for light, sub-GeV, dark matter (DM). It is thus crucial to have accurate predictions for any DM-electron interaction rate in this regime. EXCEED-DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-16 Tanner Trickle

Direct detection for sub-GeV dark matter is developing rapidly, with many novel experimental ideas and theoretical methods emerging. In this work, we extend the dielectric formalism for dark matter scattering to incorporate anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Christian Boyd , Yonit Hochberg , Yonatan Kahn , Eric David Kramer , Noah Kurinsky , Benjamin V. Lehmann , To Chin Yu

If dark matter (DM) is composed by particles which are non-gravitationally coupled to ordinary matter, their annihilations or decays in cosmic structures can result in detectable radiation. We show that the most powerful technique to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marco Regis , Jun-Qing Xia , Alessandro Cuoco , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

The direct detection of particle dark matter through its scattering with nucleons is of fundamental importance to understand the nature of DM. In this work, we propose that the high-energy neutrino detectors like IceCube can be used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-26 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu

We calculate direct detection constraints on inelastic dark matter (DM) for a scalar portal scenario with leptophilic couplings. The p-wave velocity suppression of the annihilation cross section of scalar-mediated inelastic Dirac DM implies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 I. V. Voronchikhin , D. V. Kirpichnikov

We study novel scenarios where thermal dark matter (DM) can be efficiently captured in the Sun and annihilate into boosted dark matter. In models with semi-annihilating DM, where DM has a non-minimal stabilization symmetry, or in models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Joshua Berger , Yanou Cui , Yue Zhao

A novel mechanism of boosting dark matter by cosmic neutrinos is proposed. The new mechanism is so significant that the arriving flux of dark matter in the mass window $1~{\rm keV} \lesssim m_{\rm DM} \lesssim 1~{\rm MeV}$ on Earth can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Yongsoo Jho , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park , Po-Yan Tseng

We develop a simulation within GENIE of the excitation of baryonic resonances by boosted dark matter. This work completes the simulation of all scattering modes for dark matter entering a detector at relativistic speeds. At some boosts,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Joshua Berger , Zach Orr

Blazar-Boosted Dark Matter (BBDM) is a novel mechanism whereby dark matter (DM) particles are accelerated to ultrarelativistic energies through interactions with blazar jets. Focusing on a vector portal DM model, we systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Jin-Wei Wang

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter particles with nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair production at a hadron collider, and with the addition of initial state radiation this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

Dark matter (DM) could be a pseudo-Dirac thermal relic with a small mass splitting that is coupled off-diagonally to a kinetically mixed dark photon. This model, particularly in the sub-GeV mass range, is a key benchmark for accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-07 Nirmalya Brahma , Saniya Heeba , Katelin Schutz

Dark matter (DM) could be a relic of freeze-in through a light mediator, where the DM is produced by extremely feeble, IR-dominated processes in the thermal Standard Model plasma. In the simplest viable models with the DM mass below the MeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

We present new constraints on the cosmic ray electron boosted light dark matter (CReDM) using the 205.4 kg$\cdot$day data of the CDEX-10 experiment located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The cosmic ray electron spectrum and…

Experiments seeking to detect rare event interactions such as dark matter or coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering are striving for large mass detectors with very low detection threshold. Using Neganov-Luke phonon amplification…

We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV-GeV mass, via inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE, Super-K, Hyper-K, and JUNO. The approach uses inelastic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Jayden L. Newstead , Jong-Chul Park , Iman Shaukat Ali