Earth-Catalyzed Detection of Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter with Photons in Large Underground Detectors

Joshua Eby, Patrick J. Fox, Graham D. Kribs

Inelastic dark matter with moderate splittings, $\mathcal{O}(\mathrm{few}\mathrm{to}150)$ keV, can upscatter to an excited state in the Earth, with the excited state subsequently…