12 papers
New Windows on Heavy Dark Matter: Mineral Melt Modelling and X-Ray Readout for Muscovite Mica
Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Andrew Buchanan +5
Muscovite mica is a translucent, layered silicate mineral whose basal cleavage, low radiogenic background, gigayear exposures, and demonstrated track retention over geological time…
Very Heavy and Composite Dark Matter: Theory and Experimental Searches
Joseph Bramante
Dark matter much heavier than the weak scale remains a comparatively unexplored frontier. This review surveys theoretical and experimental developments on very heavy dark matter, i…
High Mass Dark Matter Searches With the High Speed Flux From the Large Magellanic Cloud
Nassim Bozorgnia, Joseph Bramante, Andrew Buchanan
As the hunt for dark matter progresses, recently there have been advances in the search for heavy dark matter with a mass well above a TeV. We show the importance of properly model…
Secluded Dark Composites and Remnant Binding Fields
Katarina Bleau, Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante +1
Dark matter may freeze-out and undergo composite assembly while decoupled from the Standard Model. In this secluded composite scenario, while individual dark matter particles may b…
Deconstructive Composite Dark Matter Detection
Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Christopher Cappiello +1
We investigate the detection of composite dark matter that disassembles into a cascade while crossing the Earth. This occurs for loosely bound composite dark matter, where the bind…
Galactic magnetic fields seeded by ultralight dark photons
Joshua Berger, Amit Bhoonah, Joseph Bramante +3
In this work, we show that ultralight dark photons, which couple to the Standard Model photon through kinetic mixing, can potentially source galactic scale magnetic fields. Althoug…