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There exist well motivated models of particle dark matter which predominantly scatter inelastically off nuclei in direct detection experiments. This inelastic transition causes the DM to up-scatter in terrestrial experiments into an excited state up to ~500-600keV heavier than the DM itself. An inelastic transition of this size is highly suppressed by both kinematics and nuclear form factors. I will discuss the prospects for improvements in sensitivity in dark matter direct detection experiments. I will also discuss alternative search strategies, using low background neutrino detectors, based upon dark matter scattering inelastically off elements in the Earth and then subsequently decaying into a monoenergetic photon.

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