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Light Dark Matter Accumulating in Planets: Nuclear Scattering
Joseph Bramante, Jason Kumar, Gopolang Mohlabeng, Nirmal Raj, Ningqiang Song
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We present, for the first time, a complete treatment of strongly-interacting dark matter capture in planets, taking Earth as an example. We focus on light dark matter and the heating of Earth by dark matter annihilation, addressing a number of crucial dynamical processes which have been overlooked, such as the "ping-pong effect" during dark matter capture. We perform full Monte-Carlo simulations and obtain improved bounds on strongly-interacting dark matter from Earth heating and direct detection experiments for both spin-independent and spin-dependent interactions, while also allowing for the interacting species to make up a sub-component of the cosmological dark matter.
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