Speaker
Jason Kumar
Description
We consider searches for the inelastic scattering of low-mass dark matter against nuclei at direct detection experiments, using the Migdal effect. We find that there are degeneracies between the dark matter mass and the mass splitting that are difficult to break. Using XENON1T data we set bounds on a previously unexplored region of the inelastic dark matter parameter space. For the case of exothermic scattering, we find that the Migdal effect allows xenon-based detectors to have sensitivity to dark matter with
Authors
Jason Kumar
Bhaskar Dutta
(Texas A&M University)
Nicole Bell
(University of Melbourne)
Jayden Newstead
James Dent
(Sam Houston State University)
Sumit Ghosh
(Texas A & M University)