2 papers
hep-ph2026
A Mean-Field Approach to the Dielectric Response of Bulk Superconductors for Light Dark Matter Direct Detection
Chengyao Gan, Hui Li, Wenjing Li +3
The dielectric function is central to describing many-body screening effects in dark matter (DM) direct detection with condensed matter targets. Current superconducting detector an…
hep-ph2026
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…