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most citedSearch for Dark Matter Induced Airglow in Planetary Atmospheres

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9 papers

hep-ph2026

Dark Matter Weather: Probing Sub-GeV Interactions with Earth-Shielding Modulation

Tetiana Kozynets, Rebecca Leane, Juri Smirnov

Daily modulation from Earth shielding provides a powerful search handle for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) in low-threshold experiments. We use this effect as a probe of interaction stru…

hep-ph20261 cited

Complementary Planetary Spectroscopy Probes of Dark Matter

Carlos Blanco, Rebecca K. Leane, Marianne Moore +1

We investigate dark matter (DM) interactions via spectroscopic signatures of energy injection in planetary environments. We develop a general framework to account for how DM energy…

hep-ph20261 cited

Search for Dark Matter Induced Airglow in Planetary Atmospheres

Carlos Blanco, Rebecca K. Leane, Marianne Moore +1

We point out that dark matter can illuminate planetary skies via ultraviolet airglow. Dark matter annihilation products can excite molecular hydrogen, which then deexcites to produ…

hep-ph2025

Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection with Dark Rates in Liquid Scintillators

Lillian Santos-Olmsted, Rebecca K. Leane, Carlos Blanco +1

It was recently shown that standard sub-GeV dark matter candidates can be effectively probed by large neutrino observatories via annual modulation of the total photomultiplier hit…

hep-ph2025

Search for Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay with H Line Emission

Rebecca K. Leane

I present a new indirect search for dark matter (DM) using Hydrogen- (H) recombination emission. DM annihilation or decay products can ionize neutral gas; subsequent recombin…

hep-ph2025

Sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection with Neutrino Observatories

Rebecca K. Leane, John F. Beacom

We present a new technique for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) searches and a new use of neutrino observatories. DM-electron scattering in an observatory can excite or ionize target molec…