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Some Direct Detection Signatures of Sub-MeV Dark Matter

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Illuminating Dark Matter

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ((ASSSP,volume 56))

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Some of the motivations for considering light dark matter in the sub-GeV mass regime are reviewed, and I discuss work on specific direct detection signatures of MeV and sub-MeV mass dark matter candidates that can be studied using current experiments such as XENON1T, PANDA-X, SuperCDMS, and others.

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Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank my colleagues, Haipeng An, Maxim Pospelov and Josef Pradler for enjoyable collaborations on the work described here, Rouven Essig, Jonathan Feng, and Kathryn Zurek for their invitation to this stimulating workshop, and the Simons Foundation for their financial support of the meeting. This work was supported in part by NSERC, Canada.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Adam Ritz

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  1. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Rouven Essig

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Jonathan Feng

  3. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Kathryn Zurek

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Ritz, A. (2019). Some Direct Detection Signatures of Sub-MeV Dark Matter. In: Essig, R., Feng, J., Zurek, K. (eds) Illuminating Dark Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31593-1_15

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