Other endothermic DM · Interpretation
Endothermic dark matter with a light dark photon and the LUX-ZEPLIN high-energy nuclear-recoil candidate
- Published
- September 8, 2026
- Updated
- October 4, 2026
- Identifier
- arXiv:2609.09015
Why it is here
A likelihood-based dark-photon fit whose viability depends on depleting the long-lived excited state.
Machine-assisted summary
The authors jointly scan the LZ energy likelihood and relic density for endothermic dark matter with a light kinetically mixed dark photon, finding TeV masses and few-hundred-keV splittings while highlighting late-time excited-state constraints.
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Cites 36
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- Higgsino Above the Sea of FogJiJi Fan, Matthew Reece · 2026
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- Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experimentLZ Collaboration · 2026
- Inelastic Dark Photon Dark Matter for the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event and the Galactic Halo Gamma-Ray ExcessKimiko Yamashita · 2026
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- Confronting the Higgsino Interpretation of the LZ Event with the High-Energy SidebandNicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, Tracy R. Slatyer, Weishuang Linda Xu · 2026
- Seasonal dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN high-energy eventChristopher McCabe · 2026
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- Axion Portal Dark Matter and the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil EventJames Unwin · 2026
- Exothermic and Endothermic Inelastic Dark Matter Interpretations at LZ: Sideband Constraints and Future ProspectsJames B. Dent, Jayden L. Newstead · 2026
- Exothermic Dark Matter at LZCarlos Henrique de Lima · 2026
- Exothermic dark matter and the 248 keV nuclear recoil in LUX-ZEPLINHoward Baer, Vernon Barger · 2026
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- Solar Capture Tests of Inelastic Dark Matter after the LZ High-Recoil EventMattia Di Mauro, Halim Shaikh · 2026
- Inelastic Self-interacting Dark Matter and LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Event in a Dirac Modular Inverse SeesawPritam Das, Biswajit Karmakar, Satyabrata Mahapatra, Partha Kumar Paul · 2026
- A Dark-Dimension Origin of Geometric Inelastic Dark Matter: The LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event and Multi-Target TestsWaqas Ahmed, George K. Leontaris · 2026
- Pseudo-Dirac Inelastic Dark Matter in the Leptophobic U(1)_B Model: Confronting the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event with Collider SearchesXin-Yu Du, Wenjie Huang, Keping Xie · 2026
- Not so good νs for Higgsino dark matter as LZ excess: stringent limits from Super-Kamiokande and IceCubeDebajit Bose, Akash Kumar Saha, Deep Jyoti Das, Rinchen Sherpa, Abhijeet Singh, Durba Ghosh, Jaya Doliya, Subhadip Bouri, Biprajit Mondal, Ranjini Mondol, Nirmal Raj, Ranjan Laha · 2026
- Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LZ High-Recoil Event in the GNMSSM with TeV-Scale GauginosSubhadip Bisal, Junjie Cao, Fei Li · 2026
- From LUX-ZEPLIN to Colliders: Probing Higgsino Dark MatterKingman Cheung, Sin Kyu Kang, Ranjeet Kumar · 2026
- ALP-mediated inelastic dark matter and the LUX-ZEPLIN high-recoil candidate event LZ230616Guan-Wen Yuan, Bo Zhang, Wen-Yu Cao, Lei Feng, Ruizhi Yang · 2026
- For Whom the Xenon Recoils: Magnetic Inelastic Dark BaryonsPouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Patrick J. Fox, Samuel D. Homiller, Graham D. Kribs · 2026
- A Warped Extra Dimensional Candidate for the LZ 248 keV EventVincent S. H. Lee, Lisa Randall · 2026
- Mixing-suppressed inelastic dark matter: a minimal model for the LZ 248 keV eventSeung J. Lee, Taewook Youn · 2026
- Xenon Isotope Filtering at the Kinematic Edge of Inelastic Dark MatterWaqas Ahmed, Ammara Ahmad, Mansoor Ur Rehman · 2026
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- Exothermic dark matter and the 248 keV nuclear recoil in LUX-ZEPLINHoward Baer, Vernon Barger · 2026
- Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LZ High-Recoil Event in the GNMSSM with TeV-Scale GauginosSubhadip Bisal, Junjie Cao, Fei Li · 2026
- Transition magnetic-dipole dark matter and the LZ230616 high-recoil candidateYuxuan He · 2026
- Inelastic Dark Matter and High-Energy Recoil Signatures in LZZi-Tong Fan, Hong-Jian He, Yu-Chen Wang, Yue Zhao · 2026
- Solar Neutrino Constraints on Inelastic Dark Matter Scattering in Light of Recent LUX-ZEPLIN ObservationsThong T.Q. Nguyen, Tim Linden, Dan Hooper · 2026
- Nuclear Recoils from Invisible Neutron-Pair Annihilation and the LZ eventJunseok Lee, Fuminobu Takahashi, Yu-Dai Tsai · 2026
- Can a minimal radiative seesaw explain the LZ 248 keV event?Hiroshi Okada, Yoshihiro Shigekami, Jia-Jun Wu · 2026
- A Freeze-In Interpretation of the LZ High-Energy Nuclear Recoil EventD. Cabo-Almeida, F. Costa, D. Feiteira, V. Oliveira · 2026
- Boosted or Inelastic? Discriminating Interpretations of the LZ 248 keV EventSatyabrata Mahapatra, Partha Kumar Paul · 2026
- Inelastic Dark Matter at LZ from Radiative Dirac Neutrino Mass ParadigmPankaj Borah, Satyabrata Mahapatra, Newton Nath, Partha Kumar Paul · 2026
- Effect of inelastic scalar dark matter in hidden $U(1)$ scenario after the LZ nuclear recoilArindam Das, Takaaki Nomura · 2026
- Xenon Isotope Filtering at the Kinematic Edge of Inelastic Dark MatterWaqas Ahmed, Ammara Ahmad, Mansoor Ur Rehman · 2026
- Hadrophilic inelastic freeze-in dark matter in $q_1-q_2$ gauge extension and the high energy LZ eventXiao-Gang He, Xuan Hong, Sk Jeesun · 2026
- DM induced neutron disappearance as the origin of the LZ nuclear recoil eventP. Uttayarat, J. Julio, R. Primulando · 2026
- Cosmological Constrained Axion-Portal Inelastic Dark Matter for the LZ EventHaipeng An, Fei Gao, Jia Liu, Minghao Liu, Changlong Xu · 2026
- Galactic Endothermic Production and Exothermic Detection of Excited Dark Matter: Implications for LUX-ZEPLINChuan-Yang Xing · 2026
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- LUX-ZEPLIN's Stairway to Hea$\nu$en: limits on elastic scatters of dark matter from solar captureDebajit Bose, Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Akash Kumar Saha, Nirmal Raj, Tarak Nath Maity, Ranjan Laha · 2026
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- The 248 keV LZ Recoil: A Possible Hint of Non-SM-Like Quark Yukawa Couplings with a Scalar-Portal Dark MatterBibhabasu De · 2026
- The LUX-ZEPLIN Event as Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Composite Dark MatterJie Sheng, Kairui Zhang · 2026
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- The LHC is not enough: the LZ High-Recoil Event at FCC-hh and a Muon ColliderBenedikt Maier, Michael Spannowsky · 2026
- Environment-dependent mass splitting to suppress solar capture in the inelastic-doublet interpretation of the LZ eventSudhakantha Girmohanta, Tae Hyun Jung · 2026
- Inelastic dark matter mediated by natural dark photonJie Tang, Pei-Hong Gu · 2026
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- Does the High Energy LUX-ZEPLIN Event Suggest Hyperfine Atomic Dark Matter?Prolay Chanda, Bhaskar Das, Sagnik Mukherjee · 2026
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- Testing Dark Matter Coscattering with the High-Energy LZ RecoilSreemanti Chakraborti, Soumyajit Datta · 2026
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- Can Nuclear Recoils and Solar Neutrinos Resolve the Composition of Singlino-Higgsino Dark Matter?Jingwei Lian, Jin Min Yang · 2026
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