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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 101, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.123012
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Department of Energy [DE-SC0019195]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019195] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We present a first calculation of the rate for plasmon production in semiconductors from nuclei recoiling against dark matter. The process is analogous to bremsstrahlung of transverse photon modes, but with a longitudinal plasmon mode emitted instead. For dark matter in the 10 MeV-1 GeV mass range, we find that the plasmon bremsstrahlung rate is 4-5 orders of magnitude smaller than that for elastic scattering, but 4-5 orders of magnitude larger than the transverse bremsstrahlung rate. Because the plasmon can decay into electronic excitations and has characteristic energy given by the plasma frequency omega(p), with omega(p) approximate to 16 eV in Si crystals, plasmon production provides a new signature and method to detect nuclear recoils from sub-GeV dark matter.
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