Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2021-07-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
If dark matter has mass lower than around 1 GeV, it will not impart enough energy to cause detectable nuclear recoils in many direct-detection experiments. However, if dark matter is upscattered to high energy by collisions with cosmic rays, it may be detectable in both direct-detection experiments and neutrino experiments. We report the results of a dedicated search for boosted dark matter upscattered by cosmic rays using the PROSPECT reactor antineutrino experiment. We show that such a flux of upscattered dark matter would display characteristic diurnal sidereal modulation, and use this to set new experimental constraints on sub-GeV dark matter exhibiting large interaction cross-sections.
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@article{arxiv.2104.11219,
title = {Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment},
author = {M. Andriamirado and A. B. Balantekin and H. R. Band and C. D. Bass and D. E. Bergeron and N. S. Bowden and C. D. Bryan and T. Classen and A. J. Conant and G. Deichert and M. V. Diwan and M. J. Dolinski and A. Erickson and B. T. Foust and J. K. Gaison and A. Galindo-Uribarri and C. E. Gilbert and S. Hans and A. B. Hansell and K. M. Heeger and B. Heffron and D. E. Jaffe and S. Jayakumar and X. Ji and D. C. Jones and J. Koblanski and O. Kyzylova and C. E. Lane and T. J. Langford and J. LaRosa and B. R. Littlejohn and X. Lu and J. Maricic and M. P. Mendenhall and A. M. Meyer and R. Milincic and P. E. Mueller and H. P. Mumm and J. Napolitano and R. Neilson and J. A. Nikkel and S. Nour and J. L. Palomino and D. A. Pushin and X. Qian and R. Rosero and P. T. Surukuchi and M. A. Tyra and R. L. Varner and D. Venegas-Vargas and P. B. Weatherly and C. White and J. Wilhelmi and A. Woolverton and M. Yeh and C. Zhang and X. Zhang and C. V. Cappiello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11219},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures