scholarly journals Exothermic dark matter for XENON1T excess

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Detector Resolution ◽  
Atomic Excitation ◽  
Microscopic Models ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Two Component

Abstract Motivated by the recent excess in the electron recoil from XENON1T experiment, we consider the possibility of exothermic dark matter, which is composed of two states with mass splitting. The heavier state down-scatters off the electron into the lighter state, making an appropriate recoil energy required for the Xenon excess even for the standard Maxwellian velocity distribution of dark matter. Accordingly, we determine the mass difference between two component states of dark matter to the peak electron recoil energy at about 2.5 keV up to the detector resolution, accounting for the recoil events over ER = 2 − 3 keV, which are most significant. We include the effects of the phase-space enhancement and the atomic excitation factor to calculate the required scattering cross section for the Xenon excess. We discuss the implications of dark matter interactions in the effective theory for exothermic dark matter and a massive Z′ mediator and provide microscopic models realizing the required dark matter and electron couplings to Z′.

scholarly journals Xenon-1T excess as a possible signal of a sub-GeV hidden sector dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Aboubrahim ◽  
Michael Klasen ◽  
Pran Nath
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Dirac Fermions ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Physics Model

Abstract We present a particle physics model to explain the observed enhancement in the Xenon-1T data at an electron recoil energy of 2.5 keV. The model is based on a U(1) extension of the Standard Model where the dark sector consists of two essentially mass degenerate Dirac fermions in the sub-GeV region with a small mass splitting interacting with a dark photon. The dark photon is unstable and decays before the big bang nucleosynthesis, which leads to the dark matter constituted of two essentially mass degenerate Dirac fermions. The Xenon-1T excess is computed via the inelastic exothermic scattering of the heavier dark fermion from a bound electron in xenon to the lighter dark fermion producing the observed excess events in the recoil electron energy. The model can be tested with further data from Xenon-1T and in future experiments such as SuperCDMS.

scholarly journals Resolving XENON excess with decaying cold dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Xu ◽  
Sibo Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Signal Rate ◽  
Cold Dark Matter Model ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Matter Model ◽  
Dark Matter Model

AbstractWe propose a decaying cold dark matter model to explain the excess of electron recoil observed at the XENON1T experiment. In this scenario, the daughter dark matter from the parent dark matter decay easily obtains velocity large enough to saturate the peak of the electron recoil energy around 2.5 keV, and the observed signal rate can be fulfilled by the parent dark matter with a mass of order 10–200 MeV and a lifetime larger than the age of Universe. We verify that this model is consistent with experimental limits from dark matter detections, Cosmic microwave background and large scale structure experiments.

scholarly journals Heavy Quark Symmetry and Fine Structure of the Spectrum of Hadronic Dark Matter

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1906
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kuksa ◽  
Vitaly Beylin
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Heavy Quark ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Hyperfine Splitting ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Heavy Quark Effective Theory ◽  
Heavy Mesons ◽  
Heavy Quark Symmetry

We analyze the structure of excited states of new heavy hadrons in the scenario with hadronic dark matter. Fine mass-splitting in a doublet of new mesons stipulates the existence of charged metastable heavy mesons. We describe the structure of new meson excited states in the framework of the heavy quark effective theory. Phenomenological consequences of fine and hyperfine splitting are considered in the hadronic dark matter scenario and beyond.

scholarly journals Two-component galaxy models with a central BH – II. The ellipsoidal case

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 1054-1070
Author(s):  
Luca Ciotti ◽  
Antonio Mancino ◽  
Silvia Pellegrini ◽  
Azadeh Ziaee Lorzad
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Stellar Dynamics ◽  
Azimuthal Velocity ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Gas Flows ◽  
Total Density ◽  
Density Distributions ◽  
Stellar Component ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Analytical Formulae

ABSTRACT Recently, two-component spherical galaxy models have been presented, where the stellar profile is described by a Jaffe law, and the total density by another Jaffe law, or by an r−3 law at large radii. We extend these two families to their ellipsoidal axisymmetric counterparts: the JJe and J3e models. The total and stellar density distributions can have different flattenings and scale lengths, and the dark matter halo is defined by difference. First, the analytical conditions required to have a nowhere negative dark matter halo density are derived. The Jeans equations for the stellar component are then solved analytically, in the limit of small flattenings, also in the presence of a central BH. The azimuthal velocity dispersion anisotropy is described by the Satoh k-decomposition. Finally, we present the analytical formulae for velocity fields near the centre and at large radii, together with the various terms entering the virial theorem. The JJe and J3e models can be useful in a number of theoretical applications, e.g. to explore the role of the various parameters (flattening, relative scale lengths, mass ratios, rotational support) in determining the behaviour of the stellar kinematical fields before performing more time-expensive integrations with specific galaxy models, to test codes of stellar dynamics and in numerical simulations of gas flows in galaxies.

scholarly journals Sensitivity of direct detection experiments to neutrino magnetic dipole moments

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Aristizabal Sierra ◽  
R. Branada ◽  
O. G. Miranda ◽  
G. Sanchez Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Magnetic Dipole ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Dipole Moments ◽  
Nuclear Recoil ◽  
Active Volume ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Flux Measurements ◽  
Neutrino Fluxes ◽  
One Year

Abstract With large active volume sizes dark matter direct detection experiments are sensitive to solar neutrino fluxes. Nuclear recoil signals are induced by 8B neutrinos, while electron recoils are mainly generated by the pp flux. Measurements of both processes offer an opportunity to test neutrino properties at low thresholds with fairly low backgrounds. In this paper we study the sensitivity of these experiments to neutrino magnetic dipole moments assuming 1, 10 and 40 tonne active volumes (representative of XENON1T, XENONnT and DARWIN), 0.3 keV and 1 keV thresholds. We show that with nuclear recoil measurements alone a 40 tonne detector could be as competitive as Borexino, TEXONO and GEMMA, with sensitivities of order 8.0 × 10−11μB at the 90% CL after one year of data taking. Electron recoil measurements will increase sensitivities way below these values allowing to test regions not excluded by astrophysical arguments. Using electron recoil data and depending on performance, the same detector will be able to explore values down to 4.0 × 10−12μB at the 90% CL in one year of data taking. By assuming a 200-tonne liquid xenon detector operating during 10 years, we conclude that sensitivities in this type of detectors will be of order 10−12μB. Reducing statistical uncertainties may enable improving sensitivities below these values.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark mesons in light of electron recoil excess at XENON1T

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-Min Choi ◽  
Hyun Min Lee ◽  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Density Current ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Color Group ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Relic Density

Abstract We consider a novel mechanism to realize exothermic dark matter with dark mesons in the limit of approximate flavor symmetry in a dark QCD. We introduce a local dark U(1)′ symmetry to communicate between dark mesons and the Standard Model via Z′ portal by partially gauging the dark flavor symmetry with flavor-dependent charges for cancelling chiral anomalies in the dark sector. After the dark local U(1)′ is broken spontaneously by the VEV of a dark Higgs, there appear small mass splittings between dark quarks, consequently, leading to small split masses for dark mesons, required to explain the electron recoil excess in XENON1T by the inelastic scattering between dark mesons and electron. We propose a concrete benchmark model for split dark mesons based on SU(3)L× SU(3)R/SU(3)V flavor symmetry and SU(Nc) color group and show that there exists a parameter space making a better fit to the XENON1T data with two correlated peaks from exothermic processes and satisfying the correct relic density, current experimental and theoretical constraints.

scholarly journals A combined analysis of PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T experiments within the framework of dark matter effective theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuowei Liu ◽  
Yushan Su ◽  
Yue-Lin Sming Tsai ◽  
Bingrong Yu ◽  
Qiang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Combined Analysis

scholarly journals A multi-component SIMP model with U(1)X → Z2 × Z3

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-Min Choi ◽  
Jinsu Kim ◽  
Pyungwon Ko ◽  
Jinmian Li
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Symmetry ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Massive Particle ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
New Class ◽  
Matter Fields

Abstract Multi-component dark matter scenarios are studied in the model with U(1)X dark gauge symmetry that is broken into its product subgroup Z2 × Z3 á la Krauss-Wilczek mechanism. In this setup, there exist two types of dark matter fields, X and Y, distinguished by different Z2 × Z3 charges. The real and imaginary parts of the Z2-charged field, XR and XI, get different masses from the U(1)X symmetry breaking. The field Y, which is another dark matter candidate due to the unbroken Z3 symmetry, belongs to the Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP)-type dark matter. Both XI and XR may contribute to Y’s 3 → 2 annihilation processes, opening a new class of SIMP models with a local dark gauge symmetry. Depending on the mass difference between XI and XR, we have either two-component or three-component dark matter scenarios. In particular two- or three-component SIMP scenarios can be realised not only for small mass difference between X and Y, but also for large mass hierarchy between them, which is a new and unique feature of the present model. We consider both theoretical and experimental constraints, and present four case studies of the multi-component dark matter scenarios.

scholarly journals Two-component axionic dark matter halos

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (26) ◽  
pp. 2050227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennady P. Berman ◽  
Vyacheslav N. Gorshkov ◽  
Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich ◽  
Marco Merkli ◽  
Vladimir V. Tereshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Mass Density ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Einstein Condensate ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Bose Einstein Condensate ◽  
Interesting Connection ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Bose Einstein

We consider a two-component dark matter halo (DMH) of a galaxy containing ultra-light axions (ULA) of different mass. The DMH is described as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) in its ground state. In the mean-field (MF) limit, we have derived the integro-differential equations for the spherically symmetrical wave functions of the two DMH components. We studied, numerically, the radial distribution of the mass density of ULA and constructed the parameters which could be used to distinguish between the two- and one-component DMH. We also discuss an interesting connection between the BEC ground state of a one-component DMH and Black Hole temperature and entropy, and Unruh temperature.

Pulse Shape Discrimination of Nuclear Recoil and Electron Recoil Events With a NaI(Tl) Crystal for Dark Matter Search

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 534-538
Author(s):  
K. W. Kim ◽  
G. Adhikari ◽  
P. Adhikari ◽  
S. Choi ◽  
C. Ha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Pulse Shape ◽  
Pulse Shape Discrimination ◽  
Nuclear Recoil ◽  
Shape Discrimination ◽  
Dark Matter Search ◽  
Electron Recoil
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