Interpreting the High-Recoil LUX-ZEPLIN Event with Bino-/Singlino-like and Higgsino Dark Matter

arXiv:2609.40234 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/Berkeley-Electroweak-Physics/Elastic

Terminology

• Benchmark — 61× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 29× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Momentum transfer — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model — 2× in this paper
• Standard Halo Model — 2× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 1× in this paper
• Nextto-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model — 1× in this paper
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• A Vector-Like Lepton Interpretation of the High-Energy Nuclear Recoil Candidate in LUX-ZEPLIN
• Inelastic Dark Matter
• 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
• The Well-Tempered Neutralino
• The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
• Prospects and Blind Spots for Neutralino Dark Matter
• Blind Spots for neutralino Dark Matter in the MSSM with an intermediate m_A
• Blind spots for neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM
• Higgs Portals for Thermal Dark Matter - EFT Perspectives and the NMSSM -
• A relatively light, highly bino-like dark matter in the $Z_3$-symmetric NMSSM and recent LHC searches
• Electroweak Phase Transition in the $Z_3$-invariant NMSSM: Implications of LHC and Dark matter searches and prospects of detecting the gravitational waves
• Hunting ewinos and a light scalar of $Z_3$-NMSSM with a bino-like dark matter in top squark decays at the LHC
• Shedding Light on Dark Matter at the LHC with Machine Learning
• Dark Matter searches with photons at the LHC
• Higgsino Dark Matter in High-Scale Supersymmetry
• Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event

Related papers

• Classification of g-modes for neutron stars with a strong transition: Novel universal relation including slow stable hybrid stars
• Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event
• A Unified Bogoliubov Approach to Primordial Gravitational Waves: From Inflation to Reheating
• Probing Memory-Burdened Primordial Black Holes with High-Energy Neutrinos
• Enhanced Dark Matter Quantum Sensing via Phase-Space Geometric Interferometry
• Axions as Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Radiation