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most citedX-Ray Constraints on Dark Photon Tridents

17 citations · 44 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

hep-ph2026

Solar Neutrino Constraints on Inelastic Dark Matter Scattering in Light of Recent LUX-ZEPLIN Observations

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim Linden, Dan Hooper

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration recently reported the detection of a single nuclear recoil candidate event with a very high recoil energy. The lack of any corresponding low-energ…

hep-ph2026

Strong Constraints on Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation in a Nearby Subhalo

Asier Salces Pérez, Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Pedro De la Torre Luque +1

We present a dedicated search for monochromatic gamma-ray emission from a recently proposed nearby dark matter subhalo candidate. Using nearly 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data, we…

hep-ph2026

Solar Spin-Dependent Dark Matter-Neutron Cross Section Constraints: The Lost Case

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Carlos Blanco, Tim Linden

The Sun has long served as a natural dark matter detector, capturing halo particles that scatter with solar nuclei and electrons and subsequently produce indirect signals from dark…

hep-ph2026

The Sun Can Strongly Constrain Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Nucleon Scattering Below the Evaporation Limit

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim Linden

The Sun is a promising target for dark matter (DM) searches due to its ability to accumulate DM particles via scattering and catalyze their self-annihilation. However, at low DM ma…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

hep-ph2025

Out of the darkness: probing the inflationary era with dark photon dark matter

Pierluca Carenza, Tassia Ferreira, Thong T. Q. Nguyen

A recent hint reported by the TASEH haloscope suggests the possible detection of dark photon dark matter with mass . Due to their production during inflation, dark…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

INTEGRAL, eROSITA and Voyager Constraints on Light Bosonic Dark Matter: ALPs, Dark Photons, Scalars, and Vectors

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Pedro De la Torre Luque, Isabelle John +3

The decay of light bosonic dark matter particles can produce a bright electron/positron () flux that can be strongly constrained by local Voyager observations of the direct…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Sub-keV dark matter can strongly ionize molecular clouds

Pedro De la Torre Luque, Pierluca Carenza, Thong T. Q. Nguyen

We show that the ionization of dense molecular clouds can be used to set strong constraints on dark matter models producing UV/X-ray photons in their annihilation or decay. We plac…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Hunting for Dark Photon-Photon Tridents

Thong T. Q. Nguyen

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dar…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Super-Kamiokande Strongly Constrains Leptophilic Dark Matter Capture in the Sun

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim Linden, Pierluca Carenza +1

The Sun can efficiently capture leptophilic dark matter that scatters with free electrons. If this dark matter subsequently annihilates into leptonic states, it can produce a detec…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

Strong Constraints on Dark Photon and Scalar Dark Matter Decay from INTEGRAL and AMS-02 data

Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Isabelle John, Tim Linden +1

We investigate the decay of bosonic dark matter with masses between 1 MeV and 2 TeV into Standard Model final states. We specifically focus on dark photons that kinetically mix wit…

hep-ph2024★ 17 cited

X-Ray Constraints on Dark Photon Tridents

Tim Linden, Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim M. P. Tait

Dark photons that are sufficiently light and/or weakly-interacting represent a compelling vision of dark matter. Dark photon decay into three photons, which we call the dark photon…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

Indirect Searches for Dark Photon-Photon Tridents in Celestial Objects

Tim Linden, Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim M. P. Tait

We model and constrain the unique indirect detection signature produced by dark matter particles that annihilate through a gauge symmetry into dark photons that subsequently…

hep-ph2023

Celestial Objects as Dark Matter Colliders

Thong T. Q. Nguyen

In the vicinity of the Milky Way Galactic Center, celestial bodies, including neutron stars, reside within a dense dark matter environment. This study explores the accumulation of…