TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel Direct Detection Constraints on Light Dark Matter
AU - Bringmann, Torsten
AU - Pospelov, Maxim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - All attempts to directly detect particle dark matter (DM) scattering on nuclei suffer from the partial or total loss of sensitivity for DM masses in the GeV range or below. We derive novel constraints from the inevitable existence of a subdominant, but highly energetic, component of DM generated through collisions with cosmic rays. Subsequent scattering inside conventional DM detectors, as well as neutrino detectors sensitive to nuclear recoils, limits the DM-nucleon scattering cross section to be below 10-31 cm2 for both spin-independent and spin-dependent scattering of light DM.
AB - All attempts to directly detect particle dark matter (DM) scattering on nuclei suffer from the partial or total loss of sensitivity for DM masses in the GeV range or below. We derive novel constraints from the inevitable existence of a subdominant, but highly energetic, component of DM generated through collisions with cosmic rays. Subsequent scattering inside conventional DM detectors, as well as neutrino detectors sensitive to nuclear recoils, limits the DM-nucleon scattering cross section to be below 10-31 cm2 for both spin-independent and spin-dependent scattering of light DM.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.171801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.171801
M3 - Article
C2 - 31107056
AN - SCOPUS:85065755835
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 122
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 17
M1 - 171801
ER -