ALP-mediated inelastic dark matter and the LUX-ZEPLIN high-recoil candidate event LZ230616

Guan-Wen Yuan, Bo Zhang, Wen-Yu Cao +2

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration has reported a high-energy candidate event LZ230616 with a reconstructed nuclear recoil energy $E_R=248\pm 23_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm 23_{\mathrm{sys}}\mathrm{keV}$.…