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TeV Higgsino Dark Matter from LZ Nuclear Recoil to Fermi-LAT Gamma Rays
Lei Wu, Yang Zhang, Bin Zhu
The excess of high-energy nuclear recoils, which was recently reported by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, together with the Fermi-LAT Galactic-Center preference, suggests new physi…
Dielectric Response for Light Dark Matter Direct Detection Beyond the Longitudinal Approximation
Zheng-Liang Liang, Lei Wu, Wen-Na Yang +2
The dielectric formalism for light dark matter--electron scattering in semiconductors has, to date, employed only the longitudinal dielectric function , with the transverse re…
Inelastic Scattering Effects on Attenuation of Boosted Dark Matter
Guanhua Gu, Liangliang Su, Lei Wu +1
Earth attenuation is crucial for interpreting direct-detection constraints on boosted dark matter (DM), since scatterings with terrestrial nuclei can significantly modify the flux…
Search for High-Frequency Gravitational Waves via Geomagnetic Conversion with Radio Telescopes
Hongliang Tian, Lei Wu, Xiaolong Yang +2
The detection of high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) above 10 kHz provides a crucial probe of exotic astrophysical phenomena and new physics. We report the first search for…
Probing Millicharged Dark Matter with Magnetometer Coupled to Circuit
Yuanlin Gong, Hongliang Tian, Lei Wu +1
We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the exter…
Probing Supernova Neutrino Boosted Dark Matter with Collective Excitation
Jun-Wei Sun, Lei Wu, Yan-Hao Xu +1
We explore the supernova neutrino-boosted dark matter (SNBDM) and its direct detection. During core-collapse supernovae, an abundance of neutrinos are emitted. These supernova n…
Geomagnetic constraints on Millicharged Dark Matter
Ariel Arza, Yuanlin Gong, Jing Shu +3
Millicharged particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates arising in many extensions of the Standard Model. We show that, despite their tiny coupling to photons, milli…
Halo-dependent Anharmonic Effects in Collective Excitation for Light Dark Matter Direct Detection
Jun Guo, Lei Wu, Bin Zhu
Phonon, the collective excitation of lattice vibration in the crystal, has been put forward as a means to search for light dark matter. However, the accurate modeling of the multi-…
Plasmon-enhanced Direct Detection Method for Boosted sub-MeV Dark Matter
Zheng-Liang Liang, Liangliang Su, Lei Wu +1
Plasmon, a collective mode of electronic excitation in solid-state detectors, provides a novel way to detect light dark matter (DM). In this work, we present the conditions of DM t…
Gravitational Wave as a Probe of Light Feebly Interacting Dark Matter
Yuchao Gu, Liangliang Su, Lei Wu +2
Light feebly interacting dark matter is widely predicted in a plethora of new physics models. However, due to very feeble couplings with the Standard Model particles, its relic den…
Probing Light DM through Migdal Effect with Spherical Proportional Counter
Yuchao Gu, Jie Tang, Lei Wu +1
Owing to its low electronic noise and flexible target materials, the Spherical Proportional Counter (SPC) with a single electron detection threshold can be utilized to search for s…
Listening for echo from the stimulated axion decay with the 21 CentiMeter Array
Ariel Arza, Quan Guo, Lei Wu +4
The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle that could solve the long-standing strong CP problem in particle physics and the dark matter mystery in the cosmos. Due to the stimu…
Detecting Quadratically Coupled Ultra-light Dark Matter with Stimulated Annihilation
Yuanlin Gong, Xin Liu, Lei Wu +2
Ultra-light Dark Matter (ULDM) is one of the most promising DM candidates. Due to the Bose enhancement, we find the annihilation rate of the ULDM in the presence of background phot…
An Improved Bound on Accelerated Light Dark Matter
Liangliang Su, Lei Wu, Bin Zhu
Light (sub-GeV) dark matter has gained increasing interest in terms of direct detection. Accelerated dark matter is a promising candidate that can generate detectable nuclear recoi…
Can supercooled phase transitions explain the gravitational wave background observed by pulsar timing arrays?
Peter Athron, Andrew Fowlie, Chih-Ting Lu +4
Several pulsar timing array collaborations recently reported evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies. Whilst the SGWB could originate from…
Footprints of Axion-Like Particle in Pulsar Timing Array Data and James Webb Space Telescope Observations
Shu-Yuan Guo, Maxim Khlopov, Xuewen Liu +3
Several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported the evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), which can unveil the formation of primor…
MeV Gamma-Ray Constraints for Light Dark Matter from Semi-Annihilation
Jun Guo, Lei Wu, Bin Zhu
Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that…
Can Sterile Neutrino Explain Very High Energy Photons from GRB221009A?
Shu-Yuan Guo, Maxim Khlopov, Lei Wu +1
The LHAASO collaboration has reported their observation of very high energy photons ( TeV) from the gamma-ray burst GRB221009A. The sterile neutrino that involv…
Accelerated Light Dark Matter-Earth Inelastic Scattering in Direct Detection
Liangliang Su, Lei Wu, Ning Zhou +1
The Earth-stopping effect plays a crucial role in the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter. Besides the elastic scattering process, the quasi-elastic and deep inelastic scatteri…
Spin-dependent sub-GeV Inelastic Dark Matter-electron scattering and Migdal effect: (I). Velocity Independent Operator
Jiwei Li, Liangliang Su, Lei Wu +1
The ionization signal provide an important avenue of detecting light dark matter. In this work, we consider the sub-GeV inelastic dark matter and use the non-relativistic effective…
Probing Supersymmetry Breaking Scale with Atomic Clocks
Victor V. Flambaum, Xuewen Liu, Igor Samsonov +2
The supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking mechanism generally predicts the existence of the sgoldstinos, which can play the role of wave-like dark matter. Due to the ubiquitous coupling to…
Electroweak Precision Fit and New Physics in light of Boson Mass
Chih-Ting Lu, Lei Wu, Yongcheng Wu +1
The boson mass is one of the most important electroweak precision observables for testing the Standard Model or its extensions. The very recent measured boson mass at CDF s…
Hadronic Uncertainties versus New Physics for the boson Mass and Muon Anomalies
Peter Athron, Andrew Fowlie, Chih-Ting Lu +3
There are now two single measurements of precision observables that have major anomalies in the Standard Model: the recent CDF measurement of the mass shows a deviation an…
Detection of Inelastic Dark Matter via Electron Recoils in SENSEI
Yuchao Gu, Lei Wu, Bin Zhu
The low-threshold experiment SENSEI, which uses the ultralow-noise silicon Skipper-CCD to explore light dark matter from the halo, has achieved the most rigorous limitations on lig…