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Elastic high-recoil DM · Interpretation

Axion Portal Dark Matter and the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event

James Unwin

Published
September 3, 2026
Updated
September 10, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.04186

Why it is here

Shows how elastic scattering can still favor high recoil when the interaction is momentum suppressed at low energy.

Machine-assisted summary

A momentum-dependent pseudoscalar interaction produces elastic nuclear recoils without relying on an inelastic state change. A light pseudoscalar mediator embeds the operator in an axion-portal model.

axion portalpseudoscalarelastic scatteringthermal freeze-out

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