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Hunting sub-GeV dark matter with NO$\nu$A near detector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-03-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the sensitivity of the NOν\nuA near detector to MeV-GeV dark matter while operating symbiotically with the neutrino program. We find that NOν\nuA could explore a large new region of parameter space over the next few years for dark matter masses below 100 MeV, reaching the thermal target for a scalar dark matter particle for some masses. This result represents a significant improvement over existing probes such as Babar, E137, and LSND.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06501,
  title  = {Hunting sub-GeV dark matter with NO$\nu$A near detector},
  author = {Patrick deNiverville and Claudia Frugiuele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06501},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures