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Light(ly)-coupled Dark Matter in the keV Range: Freeze-In and Constraints
Jae Hyeok Chang, Rouven Essig, Annika Reinert
Dark matter produced from thermal freeze-out is typically restricted to have masses above roughly 1 MeV. However, if the couplings are small, the freeze-in mechanism allows for pro…
On the relation between Migdal effect and dark matter-electron scattering in isolated atoms and semiconductors
Rouven Essig, Josef Pradler, Mukul Sholapurkar +1
A key strategy for the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter is to search for small ionization signals. These can arise from dark matter-electron scattering or when the dark matt…
Direct Detection of Spin-(In)dependent Nuclear Scattering of Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Molecular Excitations
Rouven Essig, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Harikrishnan Ramani +1
We propose a novel direct detection concept to search for dark matter with 100~keV to 100~MeV masses. Such dark matter can scatter off molecules in a gas and transfer an $\mathcal{…
Direct Detection of Strongly Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter via Electron Recoils
Timon Emken, Rouven Essig, Chris Kouvaris +1
We consider direct-detection searches for sub-GeV dark matter via electron scatterings in the presence of large interactions between dark and ordinary matter. Scatterings both on e…
SENSEI: Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Shallow Underground Run Using a Prototype Skipper-CCD
Orr Abramoff, Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch +14
We present new direct-detection constraints on eV-to-GeV dark matter interacting with electrons using a prototype detector of the Sub-Electron-Noise Skipper-CCD Experimental Instru…
MATHUSLA: A Detector Proposal to Explore the Lifetime Frontier at the HL-LHC
Henry Lubatti, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +60
The observation of long-lived particles at the LHC would reveal physics beyond the Standard Model, could account for the many open issues in our understanding of our universe, and…