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Boosted & nonstandard fluxes · Interpretation

Boosted dark particles and the LZ nuclear recoil event

Kristjan Kannike, Martti Raidal, Alessandro Strumia

Published
September 7, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.07742

Why it is here

A boosted elastic alternative with target and modulation signatures distinct from halo inelastic dark matter.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors interpret the event as elastic scattering of a boosted dark-sector particle with momentum-dependent pseudoscalar interactions, predicting little annual modulation, no leading argon signal, and complementary recoils in spinful light nuclei.

boosted particlespseudoscalar couplingtarget complementarityannual modulation

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