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Brzeminski D, Hook A. Dynamical Explanation of the Dark Matter and Baryon Energy Density Coincidence. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:201001. [PMID: 38829063 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.201001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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The near equality of the dark matter and baryon energy densities is a remarkable coincidence, especially when one realizes that the baryon mass is exponentially sensitive to UV parameters in the form of dimensional transmutation. We explore a new dynamical mechanism, where in the presence of an arbitrary number density of baryons and dark matter, a scalar adjusts the masses of dark matter and baryons until the two energy densities are comparable. In this manner, the coincidence is explained regardless of the microscopic identity of dark matter and how it was produced. This new scalar causes a variety of experimental effects such as a new force and a (dark) matter density-dependent proton mass.
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- Dawid Brzeminski
- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Cold Particle Dark Matter. Symmetry (Basel) 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/sym13101945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Possible dark matter candidates in particle physics span a mass range extending over fifty orders of magnitude. In this review, we consider the range of masses from a few keV to a few hundred TeV, which is relevant for cold particle dark matter. We will consider models where dark matter arises as weakly coupled elementary fields and models where dark matter is a composite state bound by a new strong interaction. Different production mechanisms for dark matter in these models will be described. The landscape of direct and indirect searches for dark matter and some of the resulting constraints on models will be briefly discussed.
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Seong IS, Vahsen SE, Adachi I, Aihara H, Al Said S, Asner DM, Aulchenko V, Aushev T, Ayad R, Babu V, Bakich AM, Bansal V, Behera P, Bhardwaj V, Bhuyan B, Bilka T, Biswal J, Bobrov A, Bonvicini G, Bozek A, Bračko M, Browder TE, Cao L, Červenkov D, Chang P, Chekelian V, Chen A, Cheon BG, Chilikin K, Cho K, Choi Y, Choudhury S, Cinabro D, Cunliffe S, Dash N, Di Carlo S, Dingfelder J, Dong TV, Eidelman S, Epifanov D, Fast JE, Frey A, Fulsom BG, Garg R, Gaur V, Gabyshev N, Garmash A, Gelb M, Giri A, Goldenzweig P, Golob B, Guido E, Haba J, Hayasaka K, Hayashii H, Hedges MT, Higuchi T, Hou WS, Hsu CL, Huang K, Iijima T, Inami K, Inguglia G, Ishikawa A, Itoh R, Iwasaki M, Iwasaki Y, Jacobs WW, Jeon HB, Jia S, Jin Y, Joffe D, Joo KK, Julius T, Kaliyar AB, Karyan G, Kawasaki T, Kichimi H, Kiesling C, Kim DY, Kim JB, Kim KT, Kim SH, Kinoshita K, Kodyš P, Korpar S, Kotchetkov D, Križan P, Kroeger R, Krokovny P, Kuhr T, Kumita T, Kuzmin A, Kwon YJ, Lange JS, Lee IS, Lee SC, Li LK, Li YB, Li Gioi L, Libby J, Liventsev D, Lubej M, Luo T, MacQueen C, Masuda M, Matsuda T, Merola M, Miyabayashi K, Miyata H, Mizuk R, Mohanty GB, Mori T, Mussa R, Nakano E, Nakao M, Nanut T, Nath KJ, Nayak M, Niiyama M, Nisar NK, Nishida S, Nishimura K, Ogawa S, Ono H, Ostrowicz W, Pakhlov P, Pakhlova G, Pal B, Park H, Pedlar TK, Pestotnik R, Piilonen LE, Prencipe E, Ritter M, Rostomyan A, Russo G, Sakai Y, Salehi M, Sandilya S, Santelj L, Sanuki T, Savinov V, Schneider O, Schnell G, Schueler J, Schwanda C, Seino Y, Senyo K, Seon O, Sevior ME, Shen CP, Shibata TA, Shiu JG, Simon F, Solovieva E, Stanič S, Starič M, Sumihama M, Sumiyoshi T, Sutcliffe W, Takizawa M, Tanida K, Tenchini F, Trabelsi K, Uchida M, Uglov T, Unno Y, Uno S, Usov Y, Van Hulse C, Van Tonder R, Varner G, Vinokurova A, Vossen A, Wang B, Wang CH, Wang P, Watanabe M, Watanuki S, Widmann E, Won E, Yamamoto H, Ye H, Yelton J, Yuan CZ, Yusa Y, Zakharov S, Zhang ZP, Zhilich V, Zhukova V, Zhulanov V, Zupanc A. Search for a Light CP-odd Higgs Boson and Low-Mass Dark Matter at the Belle Experiment. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:011801. [PMID: 31012694 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.011801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report on the first Belle search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson, A^{0}, that decays into low mass dark matter, χ, in final states with a single photon and missing energy. We search for events produced via the dipion transition ϒ(2S)→ϒ(1S)π^{+}π^{-}, followed by the on-shell process ϒ(1S)→γA^{0} with A^{0}→χχ, or by the off-shell process ϒ(1S)→γχχ. Utilizing a data sample of 157.3×10^{6} ϒ(2S) decays, we find no evidence for a signal. We set limits on the branching fractions of such processes in the mass ranges M_{A^{0}}<8.97 GeV/c^{2} and M_{χ}<4.44 GeV/c^{2}. We then use the limits on the off-shell process to set competitive limits on WIMP-nucleon scattering in the WIMP mass range below 5 GeV/c^{2}.
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- I S Seong
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, SAS Nagar, 140306
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- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- National Central University, Chung-li 32054
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806
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- Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746
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- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana 502285
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Satya Nagar 751007
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- LAL, University Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana 502285
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- Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana
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- INFN-Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
- Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701
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- Beihang University, Beijing 100191
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033
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- Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
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- Chonnam National University, Kwangju 660-701
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana
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- University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich
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- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749
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- Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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- Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE) and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200443
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032
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- University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192
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- INFN-Sezione di Napoli, 80126 Napoli
- Università di Napoli Federico II, 80055 Napoli
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- INFN-Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino
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- Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Toho University, Funabashi 274-8510
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- Nippon Dental University, Niigata 951-8580
- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- INFN-Sezione di Napoli, 80126 Napoli
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich
- University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015
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- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna 1050
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Beihang University, Beijing 100191
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- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- University of Nova Gorica, 5000 Nova Gorica
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397
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- Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- J-PARC Branch, KEK Theory Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
- Theoretical Research Division, Nishina Center, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198
- Showa Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo 194-8543
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka 319-1195
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao
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- Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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- National United University, Miao Li 36003
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
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- Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna 1090
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana
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D'Eramo F, Profumo S. Sub-GeV Dark Matter Shining at Future MeV γ-Ray Telescopes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:071101. [PMID: 30169080 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.071101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We propose a novel framework where light (sub-GeV) dark matter (DM) is detectable with future MeV γ-ray telescopes without conflicting with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. The stable DM particle χ has a very low thermal relic abundance due to its large pair-annihilation cross section. The DM number density is stored in a slightly heavier, metastable partner ψ with suppressed pair-annihilation rates, that does not perturb the CMB, and whose late-time decays ψ→χ fill the Universe with χ DM particles. We provide explicit, model-independent realizations for this framework, and discuss constraints on late-time decays, and thus on parameters of this setup, from CMB, big bang nucleosynthesis, and large scale structure.
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- Francesco D'Eramo
- Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics, 1156 High Street, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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A small amount of mini-charged dark matter could cool the baryons in the early Universe. Nature 2018; 557:684-686. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0151-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gu PH. Cosmic matter from dark electroweak phase transition with neutrino mass generation. Int J Clin Exp Med 2017. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.96.055038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Aramaki T, Asai M, Baker W, Balakishiyeva D, Barker D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Calkins R, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Chen Y, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Ghaith M, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Leder A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Morales Mendoza JD, Oser SM, Page K, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Roberts A, Rogers HE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Toback D, Underwood R, Upadhyayula S, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wilson JS, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:071301. [PMID: 26943526 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.071301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are presented from the second CDMSlite run with an exposure of 70 kg day, which reached an energy threshold for electron recoils as low as 56 eV. A fiducialization cut reduces backgrounds below those previously reported by CDMSlite. New parameter space for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section is excluded for WIMP masses between 1.6 and 5.5 GeV/c^{2}.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Appelquist T, Berkowitz E, Brower RC, Buchoff MI, Fleming GT, Jin XY, Kiskis J, Kribs GD, Neil ET, Osborn JC, Rebbi C, Rinaldi E, Schaich D, Schroeder C, Syritsyn S, Vranas P, Weinberg E, Witzel O. Detecting Stealth Dark Matter Directly through Electromagnetic Polarizability. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:171803. [PMID: 26551103 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.171803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We calculate the spin-independent scattering cross section for direct detection that results from the electromagnetic polarizability of a composite scalar "stealth baryon" dark matter candidate, arising from a dark SU(4) confining gauge theory-"stealth dark matter." In the nonrelativistic limit, electromagnetic polarizability proceeds through a dimension-7 interaction leading to a very small scattering cross section for dark matter with weak-scale masses. This represents a lower bound on the scattering cross section for composite dark matter theories with electromagnetically charged constituents. We carry out lattice calculations of the polarizability for the lightest "baryon" states in SU(3) and SU(4) gauge theories using the background field method on quenched configurations. We find the polarizabilities of SU(3) and SU(4) to be comparable (within about 50%) normalized to the stealth baryon mass, which is suggestive for extensions to larger SU(N) groups. The resulting scattering cross sections with a xenon target are shown to be potentially detectable in the dark matter mass range of about 200-700 GeV, where the lower bound is from the existing LUX constraint while the upper bound is the coherent neutrino background. Significant uncertainties in the cross section remain due to the more complicated interaction of the polarizablity operator with nuclear structure; however, the steep dependence on the dark matter mass, 1/m(B)(6), suggests the observable dark matter mass range is not appreciably modified. We briefly highlight collider searches for the mesons in the theory as well as the indirect astrophysical effects that may also provide excellent probes of stealth dark matter.
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- T Appelquist
- Department of Physics, Sloane Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Theory, Box 351550, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sloane Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
- RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Center for Computational Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Appelquist T, Brower R, Buchoff M, Fleming G, Jin XY, Kiskis J, Kribs G, Neil E, Osborn J, Rebbi C, Rinaldi E, Schaich D, Schroeder C, Syritsyn S, Vranas P, Weinberg E, Witzel O. Stealth dark matter: Dark scalar baryons through the Higgs portal. Int J Clin Exp Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.92.075030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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García García I, Lasenby R, March-Russell J. Twin Higgs Asymmetric Dark Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:121801. [PMID: 26430985 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.121801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We study asymmetric dark matter (ADM) in the context of the minimal (fraternal) twin Higgs solution to the little hierarchy problem, with a twin sector with gauged SU(3)^{'}×SU(2)^{'}, a twin Higgs doublet, and only third-generation twin fermions. Naturalness requires the QCD^{'} scale Λ_{QCD}^{'}≃0.5-20 GeV, and that t^{'} is heavy. We focus on the light b^{'} quark regime, m_{b^{'}}≲Λ_{QCD}^{'}, where QCD^{'} is characterized by a single scale Λ_{QCD}^{'} with no light pions. A twin baryon number asymmetry leads to a successful dark matter (DM) candidate: the spin-3/2 twin baryon, Δ^{'}∼b^{'}b^{'}b^{'}, with a dynamically determined mass (∼5Λ_{QCD}^{'}) in the preferred range for the DM-to-baryon ratio Ω_{DM}/Ω_{baryon}≃5. Gauging the U(1)^{'} group leads to twin atoms (Δ^{'}-τ^{'}[over ¯] bound states) that are successful ADM candidates in significant regions of parameter space, sometimes with observable changes to DM halo properties. Direct detection signatures satisfy current bounds, at times modified by dark form factors.
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- Isabel García García
- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
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- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
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- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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D’Agnolo RT, Hook A. Spontaneous baryogenesis from extremely light asymmetric dark matter. Int J Clin Exp Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.91.115020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Blinov N, Kozaczuk J, Menon A, Morrissey DE. Confronting the moduli-induced lightest-superpartner problem. Int J Clin Exp Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.91.035026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Davoudiasl H. Nucleon decay into a dark sector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 114:051802. [PMID: 25699434 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.051802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A sub-GeV dark sector fermion X can have baryon-number-violating interactions induced by high-scale physics, leading to nucleon decay into X+meson and neutron→X+photon. Such processes can mimic standard search modes containing a neutrino, but have different kinematics and may have escaped detection. If a dark force mediated by a light vector Z(d) acts on X, depending on parameters, neutron→X+Z(d) can be important. In typical scenarios, Z(d) decays into ℓ(+)ℓ(-), where ℓ=e,μ, with an order unity branching fraction. Nucleon decay searches can potentially uncover new dark states that are otherwise inaccessible, due to their negligible coupling to ordinary matter or cosmological abundance.
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- Hooman Davoudiasl
- Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Asai M, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Beaty J, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Chen Y, Cherry M, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, DeVaney D, Di Stefano PCF, Silva EDCE, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Hansen S, Harris HR, Hertel SA, Hines BA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kenany S, Kennedy A, Kiveni M, Koch K, Leder A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Nelson RH, Novak L, Page K, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Platt M, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Resch RW, Ricci Y, Ruschman M, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schmitt RL, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Seitz DN, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Tomada A, Upadhyayula S, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles with SuperCDMS. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:241302. [PMID: 24996080 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.241302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We report a first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS. An exposure of 577 kg days was analyzed for WIMPs with mass <30 GeV/c(2), with the signal region blinded. Eleven events were observed after unblinding. We set an upper limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.2×10(-42) cm(2) at 8 GeV/c(2). This result is in tension with WIMP interpretations of recent experiments and probes new parameter space for WIMP-nucleon scattering for WIMP masses <6 GeV/c(2).
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Asai M, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hertel SA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kiveni M, Koch K, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Moore DC, Nadeau P, Nelson RH, Page K, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles using voltage-assisted calorimetric ionization detection in the SuperCDMS experiment. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:041302. [PMID: 24580434 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.041302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this Letter, we present WIMP-search results using a calorimetric technique we call CDMSlite, which relies on voltage-assisted Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization energy deposited by particle interactions. The data were collected with a single 0.6 kg germanium detector running for ten live days at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. A low energy threshold of 170 eVee (electron equivalent) was obtained, which allows us to constrain new WIMP-nucleon spin-independent parameter space for WIMP masses below 6 GeV/c2.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Fan J, Katz A, Randall L, Reece M. Dark-disk universe. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:211302. [PMID: 23745856 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.211302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We point out that current constraints on dark matter imply only that the majority of dark matter is cold and collisionless. A subdominant fraction of dark matter could have much stronger interactions. In particular, it could interact in a manner that dissipates energy, thereby cooling into a rotationally supported disk, much as baryons do. We call this proposed new dark matter component double-disk dark matter (DDDM). We argue that DDDM could constitute a fraction of all matter roughly as large as the fraction in baryons, and that it could be detected through its gravitational effects on the motion of stars in galaxies, for example. Furthermore, if DDDM can annihilate to gamma rays, it would give rise to an indirect detection signal distributed across the sky that differs dramatically from that predicted for ordinary dark matter. DDDM and more general partially interacting dark matter scenarios provide a large unexplored space of testable new physics ideas.
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- JiJi Fan
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Blum K, Efrati A, Grossman Y, Nir Y, Riotto A. Asymmetric Higgsino dark matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 109:051302. [PMID: 23006163 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.051302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In the supersymmetric framework, prior to the electroweak phase transition, the existence of a baryon asymmetry implies the existence of a Higgsino asymmetry. We investigate whether the Higgsino could be a viable asymmetric dark matter candidate. We find that this is indeed possible. Thus, supersymmetry can provide the observed dark matter abundance and, furthermore, relate it with the baryon asymmetry, in which case the puzzle of why the baryonic and dark matter mass densities are similar would be explained. To accomplish this task, two conditions are required. First, the gauginos, squarks, and sleptons must all be very heavy, such that the only electroweak-scale superpartners are the Higgsinos. With this spectrum, supersymmetry does not solve the fine-tuning problem. Second, the temperature of the electroweak phase transition must be low, in the (1-10) GeV range. This condition requires an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model.
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- Kfir Blum
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.
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Davoudiasl H, Lewis I. Technicolor-assisted leptogenesis with an ultra-heavy Higgs doublet. Int J Clin Exp Med 2012. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.86.015024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Buckley MR, Profumo S. Regenerating a symmetry in asymmetric dark matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 108:011301. [PMID: 22304253 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.011301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Asymmetric dark matter theories generically allow for mass terms that lead to particle-antiparticle mixing. Over the age of the Universe, dark matter can thus oscillate from a purely asymmetric configuration into a symmetric mix of particles and antiparticles, allowing for pair-annihilation processes. Additionally, requiring efficient depletion of the primordial thermal (symmetric) component generically entails large annihilation rates. We show that unless some symmetry completely forbids dark matter particle-antiparticle mixing, asymmetric dark matter is effectively ruled out for a large range of masses, for almost any oscillation time scale shorter than the age of the Universe.
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- Matthew R Buckley
- Center for Particle Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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Frandsen MT, Sarkar S. Asymmetric dark matter and the sun. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:011301. [PMID: 20867433 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.011301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2010] [Revised: 06/01/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Cold dark matter particles with an intrinsic matter-antimatter asymmetry do not annihilate after gravitational capture by the Sun and can affect its interior structure. The rate of capture is exponentially enhanced when such particles have self-interactions of the right order to explain structure formation on galactic scales. A "dark baryon" of mass 5 GeV is a natural candidate and has the required relic abundance if its asymmetry is similar to that of ordinary baryons. We show that such particles can solve the "solar composition problem." The predicted small decrease in the low energy neutrino fluxes may be measurable by the Borexino and SNO+ experiments.
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- Mads T Frandsen
- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
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Farrar GR, Zaharijas G. Dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the universe. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:041302. [PMID: 16486804 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.041302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2004] [Revised: 08/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We present a mechanism to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe which preserves the net baryon number created in the big bang. If dark matter particles carry baryon number Bx, and sigmaxannih<sigmaxannih, the X's freeze-out at a higher temperature and have a larger relic density than X's. If mX<or approximately 4.5BX GeV and the annihilation cross sections differ by Omicron(10%) or more, this type of scenario naturally explains the observed OmegaDM approximately 5Omegab.
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- Glennys R Farrar
- Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics. New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
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Antaramian A, Hall LJ, Rasin A. Hypercharge and the cosmological baryon asymmetry. PHYSICAL REVIEW. D, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 1994; 49:3881-3885. [PMID: 10017391 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.3881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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