Mirror dark matter and electronic recoil events in XENON1T

Abstract

Recently, the XENON1T experiment has reported the possible detection of an excess in the electronic recoil spectrum. Such an excess may indicate the presence of new physics. In this work, we suggest that the scattering of mirror electrons with ordinary electrons through photon–mirror photon kinetic mixing with parameter ϵ∼10−12(ne′/0.2cm−3)−1/2(vc0/5×109cms−1)1/2 may account for the excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T, where ne′ is the density of mirror electron and vc0 is the cutoff velocity of the mirror electron arriving at the earth. Interestingly, this parameter to interpret the excess of XENON1T electronic recoil spectrum are consistent with the constrains of Darkside50.

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