Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) may interact with a virtual pion that is
exchanged between nucleons. This interaction channel is important to consider in models …

Abstract LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a tonne-scale experiment searching for direct dark matter
interactions and other rare events. It is located at the Sanford Underground Research …

This paper discusses the microphysical simulation of interactions in liquid xenon, the active
detector medium in many leading rare-event searches for new physics, and describes …

The operation of the next generation of gamma-ray observatories will lead to a great
advance in dark matter searches. In this paper, we use the hidden sectors hypothesis within …

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dual-phase xenon time project chamber operating in
the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. We report on the results …

We identify the maximum cross sections probed by single-scatter weakly interacting massive
particle (WIMP) searches in dark matter direct detection. Owing to Poisson fluctuations in …

We investigate how the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) impacts the predicted signals in near-
future direct detection experiments for non-standard dark matter (DM) interactions, using the …

Evidence is presented for dark energy resulting directly from star formation. A survey of
stellar mass density measurements, SMD (a), as a function of universe scale size a, was …

We propose a novel mechanism, dark matter internal pair production (DIPP), to detect dark
matter candidates at beam dump facilities. When energetic dark matter scatters in a material …

The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a key open question for contemporary
astrophysics and cosmology. Here we review the features of a cosmological model of SMBH …