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Exothermic DM · Interpretation

Exothermic dark matter and the 248 keV nuclear recoil in LUX-ZEPLIN

Howard Baer, Vernon Barger

Published
September 5, 2026
Updated
September 10, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.06153

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An exothermic benchmark with an argon discriminator and a long-lived excited-state requirement.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors model the candidate as exothermic downscattering of an excited pseudo-Dirac state, arguing that its rate is comparatively insensitive to the halo escape speed and predicting several argon events per tonne-year near 250 keV.

exothermic DMpseudo-Dirac DMdark photonargon test

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