{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/light-dark-matter-accumulating-in-terrestrial","title":"Light Dark Matter Accumulating in Planets: Nuclear Scattering","arxiv_id":"2210.01812","date":"2022-10-04","proceeding":null,"authors":["Joseph Bramante","Jason Kumar","Gopolang Mohlabeng","Nirmal Raj","Ningqiang Song"],"abstract":"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.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01812v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.01812v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"light-dark-matter-accumulating-in-terrestrial","repo_url":"https://github.com/bradkav/verne","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"light-dark-matter-accumulating-in-terrestrial","repo_url":"https://github.com/songningqiang/damascus-earthcapture","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}