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most citedBoosted Dark Matter From Centaurus A and Its Detection

7 citations · 9 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Energy and Angular-Momentum Redistribution in Hydrogen Migdal Ionization

Haoyang Li, Zeyu Li, Ning Liu +2

MARVEL's first direct observation of Migdal ionization in neutron scattering marks an experimental milestone and opens a new avenue for probing electronic response to nuclear recoi…

hep-ph2026

Galactic Endothermic Production and Exothermic Detection of Excited Dark Matter: Implications for LUX-ZEPLIN

Chuan-Yang Xing

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment reported a candidate nuclear recoil at . This work proposes that endothermic self-scattering in the Galaxy can prod…

hep-ph2026

Enhanced Rydberg-Atom Superheterodyne Detection of Hidden-Photon Dark Matter on Chips

Xiaochen Li, Bo Gao, Shigeki Matsumoto +3

Although hidden-photon dark matter with masses above is well motivated by inflationary production, it remains largely unexplored by terrestrial experiments.…

hep-ph2026

Dark Matter Attenuation inside the Earth: A Boltzmann Equation Approach

Chuan-Yang Xing, Chen Xia

For strongly interacting or boosted dark matter, propagation through the Earth can involve sizable scattering and energy loss, reshaping the underground flux in energy, direction,…

hep-ph2026

Macroscopic Quantum Interference in Dark Matter Wave Scattering with MICROSCOPE

Cheng-Tao Fu, Peng-Shun Luo, Rui Luo +2

Ultralight dark matter behaves as a coherent wave, yet its quantum interference effects of elastic scattering with multiple targets have remained unexplored. We show that the neste…

hep-ph2026

A Near-Cutoff Waveguide Haloscope for sub-meV Dark Matter

Chuan-Yang Xing, Bin Zhu

We propose a near-cutoff parallel-plate waveguide haloscope for sub-meV dark matter. The concept retains the large-area openness of a dish antenna while providing cavity-like field…

hep-ph2025

Coherence from Randomness: Sub-keV Dark Matter Scattering off Random, Heterogeneous Materials

Zhi-Han Liu, Shigeki Matsumoto, Jie Sheng +1

The sub-keV mass range has long posed a challenge for the direct detection of dark matter via elastic scattering. In this Letter, we propose a new mechanism in which dark matter, a…

hep-ph2025

Relativistic Atomic Effects of Dark Matter Electron Scattering

Shao-Feng Ge, Jie Sheng, Chuan-Yang Xing

The dark matter scattering with atomic bound electrons is a crucial avenue for exploring the sub-GeV mass range. The commonly used factorization, where atomic effects are encoded i…

hep-ph2025

Torsion Balance Experiments Enable Direct Detection of Sub-eV Dark Matter

Shigeki Matsumoto, Jie Sheng, Chuan-Yang Xing +1

Light dark matter with sub-eV masses has a high number density in our galaxy, and its scattering cross section with macroscopic objects can be significantly enhanced by coherence e…

hep-ph2025

Detecting the Coupling of Axion Dark Matter to Neutron Spins at Spallation Sources via Rabi Oscillation

Peter Fierlinger, Jie Sheng, Yevgeny V. Stadnik +1

We propose a novel detection method for axion dark matter using the Rabi oscillation of neutron spins in beam-based measurements. If axions couple to neutron spins, a background os…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Detecting meV-Scale Dark Matter via Coherent Scattering with an Asymmetric Torsion Balance

Pengshun Luo, Shigeki Matsumoto, Jie Sheng +3

Dark matter with mass in the crossover range between wave dark matter and particle dark matter, around eV, remains relatively unexplored by terrestrial experim…

hep-ph2024

Nuclear Production and Analytic Attenuation of Energetic MeV Solar Dark Matter

Shao-Feng Ge, Jie Sheng, Chen Xia +1

We propose a solar production mechanism of MeV dark matter to overcome the energy threshold in direct detection experiments. In particular, the proton and deuteron fussion to ${}^3…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Boosted Dark Matter From Centaurus A and Its Detection

Chen Xia, Chuan-Yang Xing, Yan-Hao Xu

Dark matter can be boosted by high energy particles in astrophysical environments through elastic scattering. We study the production of boosted dark matter via scattering with ele…