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Description
In recent years, direct dark matter detection experiments extended the hunt for dark matter to masses well below 1GeV, driven by lowering their thresholds to the scale of few eV. However, with the lower thresholds, the experiments started to observe events above the expected background level. Numerous low-threshold experiments observe suchlike EXCESSES of events, a common feature of the EXCESSES is a steep rise toward low energy. The EXCESSES currently are the main limiting factor for affected low-mass dark matter searches and upcoming CEvNS experiments. To pin down the origin of the EXCESSES, the community exchanged their experimental evidence and expertise in three EXCESS workshops in the last two years. In this contribution, we will report on the significant insights gained on the excess and discuss remaining open questions and further prospects of (the) EXCESS(ES).
