Dark matter capture by atomic nuclei

We propose a new strategy to search for a particular type of dark matter via nuclear capture. If the dark matter particle carries baryon number, as motivated by a class of theoretical explanations of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, it can mix with the neutron and be captured by an a...

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Main Authors: Bartosz Fornal, Benjamín Grinstein, Yue Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320306729