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Leptonic New Force and Cosmic-ray Boosted Dark Matter for the XENON1T Excess

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arxiv 2006.13910 v2 pith:FOXI4FDD submitted 2020-06-24 hep-ph

Leptonic New Force and Cosmic-ray Boosted Dark Matter for the XENON1T Excess

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keywords darkmatterelectrongaugescenarioxenon1tboostedboson
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The recently reported excess in XENON1T is explained by new leptonic forces, which are free from gauge anomalies. We focus on two scenarios with and without dark matter. In Scenario #1, the gauge boson of gauged lepton number U(1)$_{L_e-L_j}$, $j=\mu$ or $\tau$ provides non-standard interaction between solar neutrino and electron that enhances the number of electron recoil events in the XENON1T detector. In Scenario #2, the new gauge boson exclusively couples to electron and dark matter, then cosmic-ray electrons can transfer their momenta to dark matter in halo. The boosted dark matter generates the electron recoil signals of ${\cal O}(1)$ keV. The dark matter, aided by the new gauge interaction, efficiently heats up a neutron star in our Galaxy more than $\sim1500$ K as a neutron star captures the halo dark matter. Therefore, we propose to utilize the future infrared telescope to test our scenario.

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