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Signatures of Earth-scattering in the direct detection of Dark Matter
Bradley J. Kavanagh, Riccardo Catena, Chris Kouvaris
Direct detection experiments search for the interactions of Dark Matter (DM) particles with nuclei in terrestrial detectors. But if these interactions are sufficiently strong, DM p…
Direct Detection of Dark Matter Bound to the Earth
Riccardo Catena, Chris Kouvaris
We study the properties and direct detection prospects of an as of yet neglected population of dark matter (DM) particles moving in orbits gravitationally bound to the Earth. This…
Probing sub-GeV Dark Matter with conventional detectors
Chris Kouvaris, Josef Pradler
The direct detection of Dark Matter particles with mass below the GeV-scale is hampered by soft nuclear recoil energies and finite detector thresholds. For a given maximum relative…
The Spectrum of Darkonium in the Sun
Chris Kouvaris, Kasper Langaeble, Niklas Grønlund Nielsen
Dark matter that gets captured in the Sun may form positronium-like bound states if it self-interacts via light dark photons. In this case, dark matter can either annihilate to dar…
New Spectral Features from Bound Dark Matter
Riccardo Catena, Chris Kouvaris
We demonstrate that dark matter particles gravitationally bound to the Earth can induce a characteristic nuclear recoil signal at low energies in direct detection experiments. The…