Cosmic-ray boosted dark matter in Xe-based direct detection experiments

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Hauptverfasser: Maity, Tarak Nath, Laha, Ranjan
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author Maity, Tarak Nath
Laha, Ranjan
author_facet Maity, Tarak Nath
Laha, Ranjan
contents LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has achieved the strongest constraint on weak-scale dark matter (DM)-nucleon spin-independent (SI) scattering cross section in a large region of parameter space. In this paper, we take a complementary approach and study the prospect of detecting cosmic-ray boosted sub-GeV DM in LZ. In the absence of a signal for DM, we improve upon the previous constraints by a factor of $\sim 2$ using the LZ result for some regions of the parameter space. We also show that upcoming XENONnT and future Darwin experiments will be sensitive to cross sections smaller by factors of $\sim 3$ and $\sim 10$ compared to the current LZ limit, respectively.
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spellingShingle Cosmic-ray boosted dark matter in Xe-based direct detection experiments
Maity, Tarak Nath
Laha, Ranjan
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has achieved the strongest constraint on weak-scale dark matter (DM)-nucleon spin-independent (SI) scattering cross section in a large region of parameter space. In this paper, we take a complementary approach and study the prospect of detecting cosmic-ray boosted sub-GeV DM in LZ. In the absence of a signal for DM, we improve upon the previous constraints by a factor of $\sim 2$ using the LZ result for some regions of the parameter space. We also show that upcoming XENONnT and future Darwin experiments will be sensitive to cross sections smaller by factors of $\sim 3$ and $\sim 10$ compared to the current LZ limit, respectively.
title Cosmic-ray boosted dark matter in Xe-based direct detection experiments
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01815