Kavli Affiliate: Paolo Privitera
| Summary:
The Sun acts as a natural dark matter accelerator. Galactic halo particles scattering in the solar plasma emerge with velocities well beyond the Galactic escape speed, providing a boosted flux that extends the kinematic reach of direct detection experiments into the sub-MeV mass regime. We present constraints on solar-reflected dark matter (SRDM) from the DAMIC-M prototype detector using $sim$1.3~kg-day of data acquired with silicon skipper charge coupled devices (CCDs) at the Modane Underground Laboratory. Exploiting the spatial diffusion signature of low-energy electron recoils, we derive 90% C.L. upper limits on the DM-electron scattering cross section for both heavy- and ultralight-mediator benchmarks, reaching $barσ_esim 3.16 cdot 10^-37 rmcm^2$ at $0.1$ MeV. For the ultralight mediator, our limits are competitive with the world-leading constraints, achieved with an integrated exposure of $sim1.3$~kg-day. These results probe the parameter space between stellar-cooling bounds and terrestrial limits from standard halo searches, a region inaccessible to direct detection experiments relying solely on the standard halo flux.
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