Boosted & nonstandard fluxes · Interpretation
A closer look at the LZ 248 keV event through the lens of cosmic-ray boosted dark matter
- Published
- September 21, 2026
- Identifier
- arXiv:2609.24982
Why it is here
A roughly 300 MeV pseudoscalar mediator makes a cosmic-ray-boosted explanation viable beyond the contact limit.
Machine-assisted summary
The authors calculate cosmic-ray production, propagation, and xenon scattering with relativistic kinematics, finding that a spin-dependent pseudoscalar interaction can populate the event window without filling the lower-energy sideband.
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