Capture and Indirect Detection of Inelastic Dark Matter

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We compute the capture rate for Dark Matter in the Sun for models where the dominant interaction with nuclei is inelastic -- the Dark Matter up-scatters to a nearby dark "partner" state with a small splitting of order a 100 keV.

• Such models have previously been shown to be compatible with DAMA/LIBRA data, as well as data from all other direct detection experiments.
• The kinematics of inelastic Dark Matter ensures that the dominant contribution to capture occurs from scattering off of iron.
• We give a prediction for neutrino rates for current and future neutrino telescopes based on the results from current direct detection experiments.