Paleo-Detectors as a Novel Probe of Dark Matter-Nucleus Effective Interactions

arXiv:2608.26289 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, hep-ph, physics.ins-det · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, hep-ph, physics.ins-det

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theory — 4× in this paper
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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• Probing the structure of the cold dark matter halo with ancient mica
• Galactic Geology: Probing Time-Varying Dark Matter Signals with Paleo-Detectors
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• The Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection
• Inelastic Dark Matter
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• A Model Independent Approach to Inelastic Dark Matter Scattering
• Recommended conventions for reporting results from direct dark matter searches

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