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Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2026 Proceedings
Alexey Elykov, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +81
The fourth "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'26) meeting was held April 14-17, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany, hosted by the Institute for Astroparticle Physics (…
Macroscopic dark matter constraints for extended mass functions
Zachary S. C. Picker, Andrew Buchanan, Melissa Diamond +1
We compile and recompute a subset of the landscape of constraints for macroscopic dark matter (macros), explicitly including the dependence on the fraction of dark matter in macros…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +70
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MDDM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences,…
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…
Seeking the nearest neutron stars using a new local electron density map
Joseph Bramante, Katherine Mack, Nirmal Raj +2
Neutron stars provide a compelling testing ground for gravity, nuclear dynamics, and physics beyond the Standard Model, and so it will be useful to locate the neutron stars nearest…
Dark Matter Candidates and Searches
Nassim Bozorgnia, Joseph Bramante, James M. Cline +7
Astrophysical observations suggest that most of the matter in the cosmos consists of a new form that has not been observed on Earth. The nature and origin of this mysterious dark m…
Dimming Starlight with Dark Compact Objects
Joseph Bramante, Melissa D. Diamond, J. Leo Kim
We demonstrate a new technique to search for dark compact objects. When dark matter comprising a dark compact object interacts with photons, the compact object can disperse light t…
Loosely Bound Composite Dark Matter
Javier F. Acevedo, Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante +3
We investigate loosely bound composite states made of dark matter, where the binding energy for constituent particles is less than the constituent mass. We focus on models of nucle…
Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings
Sebastian Baum, Patrick Huber, Patrick Stengel +57
The second "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'24) meeting was held January 8-11, 2024 in Arlington, VA, USA, hosted by Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Phys…
Cosmology of self-replicating universes in black holes formed by dark matter-seeded stellar collapse
Joseph Bramante, Nirmal Raj
We show that dark matter with certain minimal properties can convert the majority of baryons in galaxies to black holes over hundred trillion year timescales. We argue that this ha…
Dissipative Dark Cosmology: From Early Matter Dominance to Delayed Compact Objects
Joseph Bramante, Christopher V. Cappiello, Melissa D. Diamond +3
We demonstrate a novel mechanism for producing dark compact objects and black holes through a dark sector, where all the dark matter can be dissipative. Heavy dark sector particles…
Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Signatures of Inelastic Dark Matter Annihilating outside Neutron Stars
Javier F. Acevedo, Joseph Bramante, Qinrui Liu +1
We present a new inelastic dark matter search: neutron stars in dark matter-rich environments capture inelastic dark matter which, for interstate mass splittings between about $45…
Perturbative Method for Mutual Information and Thermal Entropy of Scalar Quantum Fields
Joseph Bramante, Andrew Buchanan
A new approach is presented to compute entropy for massless scalar quantum fields. By perturbing a skewed correlation matrix composed of field operator correlation functions, the m…
The Effect of Multiple Cooling Channels on the Formation of Dark Compact Objects
Joseph Bramante, Melissa Diamond, J. Leo Kim
A dissipative dark sector can result in the formation of compact objects with masses comparable to stars and planets. In this work, we investigate the formation of such compact obj…
Dark Matter-Induced Baryonic Feedback in Galaxies
Javier F. Acevedo, Haipeng An, Yilda Boukhtouchen +3
We demonstrate that non-gravitational interactions between dark matter and baryonic matter can affect structural properties of galaxies. Detailed galaxy simulations and analytic es…
Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops
Joe Bramante, Melissa Diamond, Christopher V. Cappiello +1
Dark matter is typically assumed not to couple to the photon at tree level. While annihilation to photons through quark loops is often considered in indirect detection searches, su…
Dark matter in compact stars
Joseph Bramante, Nirmal Raj
White dwarfs and neutron stars are far-reaching and multi-faceted laboratories in the hunt for dark matter. We review detection prospects of wave-like, particulate, macroscopic and…
Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter. A Whitepaper
Sebastian Baum, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +66
Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the dama…
Light Dark Matter Accumulating in Planets: Nuclear Scattering
Joseph Bramante, Jason Kumar, Gopolang Mohlabeng +2
We present, for the first time, a complete treatment of strongly-interacting dark matter capture in planets, taking Earth as an example. We focus on light dark matter and the heati…