LMC-Perturbed LZ Dark Matter Landscape

arXiv:2609.36184 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Large Magellanic Cloud — 13× in this paper
• Milky Way — 12× in this paper
• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Standard Halo Model — 2× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN — 1× in this paper
• Standard Model — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Dark Matter Candidates and Searches
• First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
• Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne-Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
• New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter from the LZ experiment
• New constraints on cosmic ray-boosted dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
• A search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure
• Search for New Physics via Low-Energy Electron Recoils with a 4.2 Tonne\times Year Exposure from the LZ Experiment
• Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
• First constraint for atmospheric millicharged particles with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
• Two-neutrino double electron capture of $^{124}$Xe in the first LUX-ZEPLIN exposure
• Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event
• Dark Matter at the Kinematic Edge: Interpreting the 248 keV LZ Nuclear-Recoil Candidate
• A Simple Dark Matter Model to Explain the LZ Event and Galactic Center Excess
• Kaluza--Klein Dark-Photon Mediation of Inelastic Dark Matter at LUX-ZEPLIN

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