Cosmic-ray upscattered inelastic dark matter

Bell, Nicole F.; Dent, James B.; Dutta, Bhaskar; Ghosh, Sumit; Kumar, Jason; Newstead, Jayden L.; Shoemaker, Ian M.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.076020

Title: Cosmic-ray upscattered inelastic dark matter

Journal Article · 21 October 2021 · Physical Review. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.076020 · OSTI ID:1826850

^[1]; Dent, James B. ^[2]; Dutta, Bhaskar ^[3]; Ghosh, Sumit ^[3]; Kumar, Jason ^[4];

^[1]; Shoemaker, Ian M. ^[5]

Univ. of Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Light non-relativistic components of the galactic dark matter halo elude direct detection constraints because they lack the kinetic energy to create an observable recoil. However, cosmic-rays can upscatter dark matter to significant energies, giving direct detection experiments access to previously unreachable regions of parameter-space at very low dark matter mass. In this work we extend the cosmic-ray dark matter formalism to models of inelastic dark matter and show that previously inaccessible regions of the mass-splitting parameter space can be probed. Conventional direct detection of non-relativistic halo dark matter is limited to mass splittings of δ ~ 10 keV and is highly mass dependent. We find that including the effect of cosmic-ray upscattering can extend the reach to mass splittings of δ ~ 100 MeV, and maintain that reach at much lower dark matter mass.

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Research Organization:: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Australian Research Council (ARC); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0020250; SC0010813; SC0010504; CE200100008

OSTI ID:: 1826850

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1903710

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Vol. 104, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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