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Inelastic Dark Matter Signature at High Recoil Energy in LUX-ZEPLIN and CRESST
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The LUX--ZEPLIN Collaboration recently reported one event at $E_{\mathrm{nr}}=248\pm23~\mathrm{keV}$ with an exposure of $2.84~\mathrm{tonne\cdot yr}$. In this Letter, we interpret this feature using endothermic dark matter (DM). We consider both direct scattering of the surviving ground-state halo component and the contribution of excited states produced by terrestrial upscattering. Our calculations show that explaining the high-energy event requires $m_χ\gtrsim500~\mathrm{GeV}$ and a mass splitting of $\mathcal{O}(300)~\mathrm{keV}$, for which the production of excited states inside the Earth is kinematically forbidden. For $\barσ_n=10^{-37}~\mathrm{cm^2}$, an illustrative two-bin likelihood analysis yields a representative best-fit point at $(m_χ,δ)\simeq(1.105~\mathrm{TeV},350~\mathrm{keV})$. The preferred parameter region may be tested by the planned CRESST upgrade.
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