Reply to Robinson and Michaud, arXiv:2002.08893
Abstract
We respond to Robinson and Michaud's (RM) comment (arXiv:2002.08893) on our recent preprint arXiv:2002.06937, in which we discuss recent excesses in low-threshold dark matter searches, and offer a potential unifying dark matter interpretation. We thank RM for their feedback, which highlights the critical need for future measurements to directly calibrate plasmon charge yields for low $\sim$ 10 eV energy depositions. RM objected to our assertion that plasmons generated at energy scales below 100~eV may have a large branching fraction into phonons. As we argue below, the points raised by RM do not invalidate our primary conclusions, as they pertain to a much different energy scale than we discuss in our paper.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2003.00101
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2003.00101
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200300101K
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- 4 Pages