Does the High Energy LUX-ZEPLIN Event Suggest Hyperfine Atomic Dark Matter?

arXiv:2609.36814 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-10-03

Terminology

• Benchmark — 38× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 4× in this paper
• Milky Way — 4× in this paper
• Momentum transfer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• For the Standard Halo Model — 1× in this paper
• Reheating — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event
• Inelastic Dark Photon Dark Matter for the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event and the Galactic Halo Gamma-Ray Excess
• Dark Matter at the Kinematic Edge: Interpreting the 248 keV LZ Nuclear-Recoil Candidate
• Inelastic Signatures of Electroweak Dark Matter
• Inelastic dark matter and baryon flavor symmetry in light of LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
• Inelastic Self-interacting Dark Matter and LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Event in a Dirac Modular Inverse Seesaw
• A Common about 55 GeV Inelastic Dark Matter Origin of the LZ, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 Excesses and Paleo-Detector Prospects

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