Low-mass inelastic dark matter direct detection via the Migdal effect
Abstract
We consider searches for the inelastic scattering of low-mass dark matter at direct detection experiments, using the Migdal effect. We find that there are degeneracies between the dark matter mass and the mass splitting that are difficult to break. Using XENON1T data we set bounds on a previously unexplored region of the inelastic dark matter parameter space. For the case of exothermic scattering, we find that the Migdal effect allows xenon-based detectors to have sensitivity to dark matter with O(MeV) mass, far beyond what can be obtained with nuclear recoils alone.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1825789
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1979917
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010813; SC0010504; NSF PHY-1820801
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 104 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Citation Formats
Bell, Nicole F., Dent, James B., Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Sumit, Kumar, Jason, and Newstead, Jayden L. Low-mass inelastic dark matter direct detection via the Migdal effect. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076013.
Bell, Nicole F., Dent, James B., Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Sumit, Kumar, Jason, & Newstead, Jayden L. Low-mass inelastic dark matter direct detection via the Migdal effect. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076013
Bell, Nicole F., Dent, James B., Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Sumit, Kumar, Jason, and Newstead, Jayden L. Thu .
"Low-mass inelastic dark matter direct detection via the Migdal effect". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076013.
@article{osti_1825789,
title = {Low-mass inelastic dark matter direct detection via the Migdal effect},
author = {Bell, Nicole F. and Dent, James B. and Dutta, Bhaskar and Ghosh, Sumit and Kumar, Jason and Newstead, Jayden L.},
abstractNote = {We consider searches for the inelastic scattering of low-mass dark matter at direct detection experiments, using the Migdal effect. We find that there are degeneracies between the dark matter mass and the mass splitting that are difficult to break. Using XENON1T data we set bounds on a previously unexplored region of the inelastic dark matter parameter space. For the case of exothermic scattering, we find that the Migdal effect allows xenon-based detectors to have sensitivity to dark matter with O(MeV) mass, far beyond what can be obtained with nuclear recoils alone.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076013},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 7,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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