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Direct detection of bound states of asymmetric dark matter

Coskuner, Ahmet and Grabowska, Dorota M. and Knapen, Simon and Zurek, Kathryn M. (2019) Direct detection of bound states of asymmetric dark matter. Physical Review D, 100 (3). Art. No. 035025. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035025. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190612-132126066

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Abstract

We study the reach of direct detection experiments for large bound states (containing 10⁴ or more dark nucleons) of asymmetric dark matter. We consider ordinary nuclear recoils, excitation of collective modes (phonons), and electronic excitations, paying careful attention to the impact of the energy threshold of the experiment. Large exposure experiments with keV energy thresholds provide the best (future) limits when the dark matter is small enough to be treated as a point particle, but rapidly lose sensitivity for more extended dark bound states, or when the mediator is light. In those cases, low threshold, low exposure experiments (such as with a superfluid helium, polar material or superconducting target) are often more sensitive due to coherent enhancement over the dark nucleons. We also discuss indirect constraints on composite asymmetric dark matter arising from self-interaction, formation history, and the properties of the composite states themselves.


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Grabowska, Dorota M.0000-0002-0760-4734
Knapen, Simon0000-0002-6733-9231
Zurek, Kathryn M.0000-0002-2629-337X
Additional Information:© 2019 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 8 January 2019; published 27 August 2019. We thank Marat Freytsis, Keisuke Harigaya, Tom Melia, Matt Pyle, Surjeet Rajendran, Harikrishnan Ramani, Diego Redigolo, Tomer Volansky, and Tien-Tien Yu for useful discussions, and Tomer Volansky and Tien-Tien Yu for assistance with the QEdark package. K. Z. is supported by the DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02- 05CH11231. A. C. and K. Z. are supported by the Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) for High Energy Physics (Grant No. KA2401032). D. M. G. is funded under NSF Grant No. 32539-13067-44-PHHXM and DOE Grant No. 041386-002. Part of this work was performed at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1607611. D. M. G. thanks the Aspen Center for Physics and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematica of the Universe (IPMU) for the hospitality shown while this work was being completed. The work by S. K. was supported in part by the LDRD program of LBNL under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants No. PHY-1002399 and No. PHY-1316783. S. K. also acknowledges support from DOE Grant No. DE-SC0009988 and from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958, where part of this work was performed.
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Department of Energy (DOE)DE-AC02-05CH11231
Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery for High Energy PhysicsKA2401032
NSF32539-13067-44-PHHXM
Department of Energy (DOE)041386-002
NSFPHY-1607611
NSFPHY-1002399
NSFPHY-1316783
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0009988
NSFPHY-1748958
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035025
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