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Does the High Energy LUX-ZEPLIN Event Suggest Hyperfine Atomic Dark Matter?

Prolay Chanda, Bhaskar Das, Sagnik Mukherjee

Published
September 29, 2026
Updated
October 3, 2026
Identifier
arXiv:2609.36814

Why it is here

The atomic benchmark predicts a sharp target hierarchy, large annual modulation, and enhanced reach when the Large Magellanic Cloud is included.

Machine-assisted summary

The authors fit the recoil with hyperfine excitation of TeV-scale hydrogen-like atomic dark matter at a roughly 340 keV splitting, placing xenon near threshold on the high-speed halo tail.

atomic dark matterhyperfine excitationtarget hierarchyannual modulation

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