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2017

Terrestrial Effects on Dark Matter-Electron Scattering Experiments

Emken, Timon, Kouvaris, Chris, Shoemaker, Ian M.

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A well-studied possibility is that dark matter may reside in a sector secluded from the Standard Model, except for the so-called photon portal: kinetic mixing between the ordinary and dark photons.

Such interactions can be probed at dark matter direct detection experiments, and new experimental techniques involving detection of dark matter-electron scattering offer new sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter.
Typically however it is implicitly assumed that the dark matter is not altered as it traverses the Earth to arrive at the detector.
In this paper we study in detail the effects of terrestrial stopping on dark photon models of dark matter, and find that they significantly reduce the sensitivity of XENON10 and DAMIC.

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