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School of Particles and Accelerator
  Title:   Calorimetric Dark Matter Detection with Galactic Center Gas Clouds
  Author(s): 
1.  Amit Bhoonah
2.  Joseph Bramante
3.  Fatemeh Elahi
4.  Sarah Schon
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett.
  No.:  131101
  Vol.:  121
  Year:  2018
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We demonstrate that dark matter heating of gas clouds, hundreds of parsecs from the Milky Way Galactic Center, provides a powerful new test of dark matter interactions. To illustrate, we set a new bound on nucleon scattering for 10�??100 MeV mass dark matter. We also constrain millicharged dark matter models, including those proposed to match the recent EDGES 21 cm absorption anomaly. For Galactic Center gas clouds, the Galactic fields�?? magnetic deflection of electromagnetically charged dark matter is mitigated, because the magnetic fields around the Galactic Center are poloidal, as opposed to being aligned parallel to the Milky Way disk. We discuss prospects for detecting dark matter using a population of Galactic Center gas clouds warmed by dark matter.

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