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Absorption of Sub-MeV Fermionic Dark Matter by Electron Targets

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arxiv 2011.01940 v3 pith:YN5SWNVH submitted 2020-11-03 hep-ph astro-ph.COhep-ex

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We study a new class of signals where fermionic dark matter is absorbed by bound electron targets. Fermionic absorption signals in direct detection and neutrino experiments are sensitive to dark matter with sub-MeV mass, probing a region of parameter space in which dark matter is otherwise challenging to detect. We calculate the rate and energy deposition spectrum in xenon-based detectors, making projections for current and future experiments. We present two possible models that display fermionic absorption by electrons and study the detection prospects in light of other constraints.

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