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  "abstract": "Nuclear reactors serve as a key artificial source of light dark matter. Direct detection of reactor-produced dark matter faces substantial obstacles, since quenching effects suppress conventional elastic scattering signals below detector thresholds. We present a new search strategy utilizing the Migdal effect in germanium detectors to probe light dark matter produced via nuclear de-excitation from reactors. Using ON-OFF residual spectra from the TEXONO experiment, we set a new stringent limit on the dark matter and nucleus interaction over the mass range $0.01\\,\\text{MeV}\\le m_χ\\lesssim 2.6\\,\\text{MeV}$, which provides a complementary bound to existing cosmological and astrophysical limits.",
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      "name": "Yuanchao Lou"
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      "name": "Liangliang Su"
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      "name": "Lei Wu"
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  "title": "Migdal Ionization as a Probe of Light Dark Matter from Nuclear Transition",
  "title_text": "Migdal Ionization as a Probe of Light Dark Matter from Nuclear Transition",
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