Loosely Bound Composite Dark Matter
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| author | Acevedo, Javier F. Boukhtouchen, Yilda Bramante, Joseph Cappiello, Chris Mohlabeng, Gopolang Tyagi, Narayani |
| author_facet | Acevedo, Javier F. Boukhtouchen, Yilda Bramante, Joseph Cappiello, Chris Mohlabeng, Gopolang Tyagi, Narayani |
| contents | 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 nuclear and molecular dark matter, where constituents are separated by length scales larger than the inverse constituent mass, just like nuclei and atoms in the Standard Model. The cosmology, structure, and interactions at underground experiments are described. We find that loosely bound composites can have a very large cross section for scattering with nuclei that scales with nucleon number like $\sim A^4$. For some couplings, these composites produce extremely soft ($\ll$ keV) individual atomic recoils while depositing a large amount of total recoil energy ($\gg$ keV) in a single passage through a detector, implying an interesting new class of signatures for low threshold direct detection. |
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| spellingShingle | Loosely Bound Composite Dark Matter Acevedo, Javier F. Boukhtouchen, Yilda Bramante, Joseph Cappiello, Chris Mohlabeng, Gopolang Tyagi, Narayani High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment 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 nuclear and molecular dark matter, where constituents are separated by length scales larger than the inverse constituent mass, just like nuclei and atoms in the Standard Model. The cosmology, structure, and interactions at underground experiments are described. We find that loosely bound composites can have a very large cross section for scattering with nuclei that scales with nucleon number like $\sim A^4$. For some couplings, these composites produce extremely soft ($\ll$ keV) individual atomic recoils while depositing a large amount of total recoil energy ($\gg$ keV) in a single passage through a detector, implying an interesting new class of signatures for low threshold direct detection. |
| title | Loosely Bound Composite Dark Matter |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03983 |