Neutrino topology reconstruction at DUNE and applications to searches for dark matter annihilation in the Sun

Rott, C.; Jeong, DongYoung; Kumar, Jason; Yaylali, David

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/006

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“…The energy of the charged lepton (E ℓ ) and the direction of the charged lepton (θ ℓ ) and jet (θ j ) can be identified with good precision at DUNE while the jet energy is not so precise. Using these observed quantities, one can reconstruct the neutrino energy as [45]…”

Section: Neutrino Energy Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE

Aoki,

Toma

2024

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Dark matter direct detection experiments impose the strong bounds on thermal dark matter scenarios. The bound can naturally be evaded if the cross section is momentum transfer or velocity dependent. One can test such thermal dark matter scenarios if dark matter particles are boosted by some mechanism. In this work, we consider a specific semi-annihilation χχ̅→νχ where χ(χ̅) is dark matter (anti-dark matter), and search for simultaneous detection of the neutrino and the boosted dark matter in the final state at DUNE. We find that the energies of the neutrino and boosted dark matter are reconstructed by kinematics. In addition, we find that both signals can be testable at DUNE if the dark matter mass is below 8 GeV, and the scattering cross section is momentum transfer dependent. Even for larger dark matter masses, the two signals can be tested by combination of DUNE and the other experiments such as IceCube/DeepCore and Hyper-Kamiokande.

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Section: Neutrino Energy Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE

Aoki,

Toma

2024

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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“…DUNE may also probe dark matter models that involve neutrino interactions. For instance, one could use DUNE to search for dark matter observing neutrinos from the Sun [49], light dark matter [50] exploring the ability of the DUNE-PRISM near detector of being shifted to different off-axis regions of the neutrino beam. Moreover, missing energy measurements can be done to search for sub-GeV dark matter [51], among other possibilities [52].…”

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confidence: 99%

Brazilian Community Report on Dark Matter

Abdalla,

Albuquerque,

Alves

et al. 2019

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“…The neutrinos from πDAR have energies ∼ 30 MeV and are extremely difficult to detect due to large atmospheric neutrino background. As a result, the community has focused on detection of the neutrinos from KDAR that have energies ∼ 236 MeV that allow for approximate reconstruction of the incident neutrino direction [25][26][27][28]. This mono-energetic feature in the neutrino spectrum is often called a "hump" or "spike".…”

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confidence: 99%

Neutrino constraints on inelastic dark matter captured in the Sun

Chauhan,

Reno,

Rott

et al. 2024

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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The flux of neutrinos from annihilation of gravitationally captured dark matter in the Sun has significant constraints from direct-detection experiments. However, these constraints are relaxed for inelastic dark matter as inelastic dark matter interactions generate less energetic nuclear recoils compared to elastic dark matter interactions. In this paper, we explore the possibility for large volume underground neutrino experiments to detect the neutrino flux from captured inelastic dark matter in the Sun. The neutrino spectrum has two components: a mono-energetic “spike” from pion and kaon decays at rest and a broad-spectrum “shoulder” from prompt primary meson decays. We focus on detecting the shoulder neutrinos from annihilation of hadrophilic inelastic dark matter with masses in the range 4–100 GeV and the mass splittings in up to 300 keV. We determine the event selection criterion for DUNE to identify GeV-scale muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos originating from hadrophilic dark matter annihilation in the Sun, and forecast the sensitivity from contained events. We also map the current bounds from Super-Kamiokande and IceCube on elastic dark matter, as well as the projected limits from Hyper-Kamiokande, to the parameter space of inelastic dark matter. We find that there is a region of parameter space that these neutrino experiments are more sensitive to than the direct-detection experiments. For dark matter annihilation to heavy-quarks, the projected sensitivity of DUNE is weaker than current (future) Super (Hyper) Kamiokande experiments. However, for the light-quark channel, only the spike is observable and DUNE will be the most sensitive experiment.

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Neutrino topology reconstruction at DUNE and applications to searches for dark matter annihilation in the Sun

Cited by 8 publications

References 109 publications

Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE

Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE

Brazilian Community Report on Dark Matter

Neutrino constraints on inelastic dark matter captured in the Sun

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