Search for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interactions with a Dark Mediator in PandaX-4T

D Huang, A Abdukerim, Z Bo, W Chen, X Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report results of a search for dark-matter–nucleon interactions via a dark mediator using
optimized low-energy data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. With the ionization …

Prospects for Light Dark Matter Searches at Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors

B Dutta, WC Huang, D Kim, JL Newstead, JC Park… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV–GeV mass, via
inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE …

The Migdal effect in semiconductors for dark matter with masses below∼ 100 MeV

KV Berghaus, A Esposito, R Essig… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Dark matter scattering off a nucleus has a small probability of inducing an
observable ionization through the inelastic excitation of an electron, called the Migdal effect …

Review on dark matter searches

S Cebrián - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark matter particles populating our galactic halo could be directly detected by measuring
their scattering off target nuclei or electrons in a suitable detector. As this interaction is …

Search for the Migdal effect in liquid xenon with keV-level nuclear recoils

J Xu, D Adams, BG Lenardo, T Pershing, RL Mannino… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The Migdal effect predicts that a nuclear recoil interaction can be accompanied by atomic
ionization, allowing many dark matter direct detection experiments to gain sensitivity to sub …

Phonon-mediated Migdal effect in semiconductor detectors

ZL Liang, C Mo, F Zheng, P Zhang - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The Migdal effect inside detectors provides a new possibility of probing the sub-GeV dark
matter (DM) particles. While there has been well-established methods treating the Migdal …

[HTML][HTML] On the impact of the Migdal effect in reactor CEνNS experiments

MA Corona, M Cadeddu, N Cargioli, F Dordei, C Giunti - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
The search for coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEνNS) using reactor
antineutrinos represents a formidable experimental challenge, recently boosted by the …

SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from SENSEI at SNOLAB

P Adari, IM Bloch, AM Botti, M Cababie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present the first results from a dark matter search using six Skipper-CCDs in the SENSEI
detector operating at SNOLAB. With an exposure of 534.9 gram-days from well-performing …

Sub-GeV dark matter search at ILC beam dumps

K Asai, S Iwamoto, M Perelstein, Y Sakaki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Light dark matter particles may be produced in electron and positron beam dumps
of the International Linear Collider (ILC). We propose an experimental setup to search for …

Exploring light dark matter with the Migdal effect in hydrogen-doped liquid xenon

NF Bell, P Cox, MJ Dolan, JL Newstead, AC Ritter - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
An ongoing challenge in dark matter direct detection is to improve the sensitivity to light dark
matter in the MeV–GeV mass range. One proposal is to dope a liquid noble-element direct …