Milky Way White Dwarfs as Inelastic Dark Matter Detectors

arXiv:2609.31850 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Standard Model — 1× in this paper

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