The LZ event with a two-state dark matter halo

arXiv:2609.35650 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/veragluscevic/dmdd

Terminology

• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reheating — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters
• Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne-Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
• The Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection
• Model-independent WIMP Scattering Responses and Event Rates: A Mathematica Package for Experimental Analysis
• Dark Matter at the Kinematic Edge: Interpreting the 248 keV LZ Nuclear-Recoil Candidate
• Inelastic Singlet-Doublet Fermion Dark Matter in light of the 248 keV LZ event
• Exothermic Dark Matter
• Inelastic Dark Matter at LZ from Radiative Dirac Neutrino Mass Paradigm
• Cosmological Constrained Axion-Portal Inelastic Dark Matter for the LZ Event
• Hadrophilic inelastic freeze-in dark matter in q 1-q 2 gauge extension and the high energy LZ event

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