Exothermic DM · Interpretation
Exothermic nuclear recoils from thermal quasi-pNGB dark matter
- Published
- October 7, 2026
- Identifier
- arXiv:2610.09516
Why it is here
Links an exothermic recoil fit to the coupled thermal history of the two dark states, with the event normalization fixing a kinetic mixing that independent mediator searches can test.
Machine-assisted summary
The authors study a thermal two-component dark sector in which a long-lived quasi-pNGB excited state survives with an appreciable abundance and down-scatters to produce the LZ high-energy recoil.
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Cites 12
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- The LZ event with a two-state dark matter haloVinicius Oliveira · 2026
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