Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter in XENON1T

Abstract

The XENON1T dark matter experiment recently reported 0.65 ton-year exposure measurement on electron recoils , which shows an excess in $2\sim 3$ KeV recoils above the detector background. In this paper we present a Pseudo-Dirac dark matter scenario to explain the excess via inelastic dark matter-electron scattering. With a KeV scale mass splitting between the two components of the Pseudo-Dirac dark matter, the slightly excited component can down-scatter on electrons. The desired dark matter masses are about 10 GeV with a 4 KeV mass-splitting and unity coupling to electrons, which generate the observed XENON1T recoil events, give the appropriate dark matter relic abundance and satisfy collider search limits.

arXiv comment9 pagers, 3 figures

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