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An improved bound on accelerated light dark matter

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Light (sub-GeV) dark matter has gained increasing interest in terms of direct detection. Accelerated dark matter is a promising candidate that can generate detectable nuclear recoil energy within the sub-GeV range. Because of the large kinetic energy, its interactions with the nucleus are predominantly governed by inelastic scattering, including quasi-elastic and deep inelastic scattering. In this work, we calculated the inelastic effects in dark matter-Earth scattering mediated by a vector particle. Our analysis revealed that the impact of inelastic scattering relies on the mediator mass and the kinetic energy spectrum of dark matter. The results exhibited considerable disparity: the upper bounds of the exclusion limit for the spin-independent cross-section between accelerated dark matter and nuclei via a heavy mediator differ by several tens of times when inelastic scattering is considered.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12275134, 12275232, and 12335005). We are grateful to Artur M. Ankowski for a useful discussion.

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Su, L., Wu, L. & Zhu, B. An improved bound on accelerated light dark matter. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 221012 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2244-7

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