Dark matter local density determination: recent observations and future prospects

PF de Salas, A Widmark - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This report summarises progress made in estimating the local density of dark matter (ρ
DM,⊙), a quantity that is especially important for dark matter direct detection experiments …

Searches for light dark matter using condensed matter systems

Y Kahn, T Lin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Identifying the nature of dark matter (DM) has long been a pressing question for particle
physics. In the face of ever-more-powerful exclusions and null results from large-exposure …

Recommended conventions for reporting results from direct dark matter searches

D Baxter, IM Bloch, E Bodnia, X Chen, J Conrad… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The field of dark matter detection is a highly visible and highly competitive one. In this paper,
we propose recommendations for presenting dark matter direct detection results particularly …

Directional recoil detection

SE Vahsen, CAJ O'Hare… - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Searches for dark matter–induced recoils have made impressive advances in the last few
years. Yet the field is confronted by several outstanding problems. First, the inevitable …

Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the artemis simulations

AM Dillamore, V Belokurov, AS Font… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Using the artemis set of 45 high-resolution cosmological simulations, we investigate a range
of merger-induced dynamical transformations of Milky Way-like galaxies. We first identify …

The impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on dark matter direct detection signals

A Smith-Orlik, N Ronaghi, N Bozorgnia… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the effect of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the dark matter (DM) distribution
in the Solar neighborhood, utilizing the Auriga magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky …

Determining the full satellite population of a Milky Way-mass halo in a highly resolved cosmological hydrodynamic simulation

RJJ Grand, F Marinacci, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the formation of the satellite galaxy population of a Milky Way-mass halo in a
very highly resolved magnetohydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulation (baryonic …

First-order electroweak phase transition in a complex singlet model with ℤ3 symmetry

CW Chiang, BQ Lu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We consider an extension of the Standard Model with a complex singlet scalar,
where a global U (1) symmetry is explicitly broken to ℤ 3 symmetry. We study the two-step …

The Milky Way, coming into focus: Precision astrometry probes its evolution and its dark matter

S Gardner, SD McDermott, B Yanny - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing trove of precision astrometric observations from the Gaia space telescope and
other surveys is revealing the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way in ever more …

Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector

P Adhikari, R Ajaj, DJ Auty, CE Bina, W Bonivento… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon detector aiming to directly detect weakly
interacting massive particles (WIMPs), located at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). After …