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Other endothermic DM · Interpretation

The LUX-ZEPLIN Event as Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Composite Dark Matter

Jie Sheng, Kairui Zhang

Published
September 20, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.23477

Why it is here

Treats the candidate as dark-hadron hyperfine spectroscopy with a few-hundred-keV internal splitting.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors interpret the recoil as endothermic hyperfine excitation between pseudoscalar and vector states of one composite dark hadron, with a PQ-augmented dark-QCD sector suppressing elastic scattering and depleting excited states.

composite dark matterhyperfine excitationdark QCDaxion depletion

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