Bramante, J and Kumar, J and Mohlabeng, G and Raj, N and Song, N (2023) Light dark matter accumulating in planets: Nuclear scattering. In: Physical Review D, 108 (6).
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Abstract
We present, for the first time, a complete treatment of strongly interacting dark matter capture in planets, taking Earth as an example. We focus on light dark matter and the heating of Earth by dark matter annihilation, addressing a number of crucial dynamical processes which have been overlooked, such as the "ping-pong effect"during dark matter capture. We perform full Monte Carlo simulations and obtain improved bounds on strongly-interacting dark matter from Earth heating and direct detection experiments for both spin-independent and spin-dependent interactions, while also allowing for the interacting species to make up a subcomponent of the cosmological dark matter. © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Physical Review D |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for High Energy Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2023 05:45 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2023 05:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/83418 |
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