LZ Paper Map248 keV papers & summaries

Exothermic DM · Interpretation

Inelastic dark matter mediated by natural dark photon

Jie Tang, Pei-Hong Gu

Published
September 23, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.28415

Why it is here

Kinematic enhancement from exothermic scattering lets the dark-photon benchmark target the LZ event while weakening its solar-neutrino tension.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors generate sub-MeV splitting in a complex scalar dark-matter pair together with naturally small dark-photon kinetic mixing, then use exothermic nuclear downscattering to fit the event with a reduced interaction strength.

dark photonexothermic dark matterloop-induced kinetic mixingIceCube constraint

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