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Earth-Scattering Induced Modulation in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Experiments
Xavier Bertou, Ansh Desai, Timon Emken +3
Dark matter particles with sufficiently large interactions with ordinary matter can scatter in the Earth before reaching and scattering in a detector. This induces a modulation in…
Resonant or asymmetric: The status of sub-GeV dark matter
Sowmiya Balan, Csaba Balázs, Torsten Bringmann +9
Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles produced via thermal freeze-out evade many of the strong constraints on heavier DM candidates but at the same time face a multitude of new constr…
Solar reflection of dark matter with dark-photon mediators
Timon Emken, Rouven Essig, Hailin Xu
We consider the scattering of low-mass halo dark-matter particles in the hot plasma of the Sun, focusing on dark matter that interact with ordinary matter through a dark-photon med…
Direct searches for general dark matter-electron interactions with graphene detectors: Part II. Sensitivity studies
Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Marek Matas +2
We use a formalism that describes electron ejections from graphene-like targets by dark matter (DM) scattering for general forms of scalar and spin 1/2 DM-electron interactions in…
Direct searches for general dark matter-electron interactions with graphene detectors: Part I. Electronic structure calculations
Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Marek Matas +2
We develop a formalism to describe electron ejections from graphene-like targets by dark matter (DM) scattering for general forms of scalar and spin 1/2 DM-electron interactions an…
Dark matter - electron interactions in materials beyond the dark photon model
Riccardo Catena, Daniel Cole, Timon Emken +4
The search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles via electronic transitions in underground detectors attracted much theoretical and experimental interest in the past few years. A…