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Neutrino lines from MeV dark matter annihilation and decay in JUNO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-09 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We discuss the discovery potential of JUNO experiment for neutrino lines from MeV dark matter (DM) annihilation and decay in a model independent way. We find that JUNO will be able to give severe constraints on the cross section of DM annihilating into neutrinos and on the lifetime of DM decaying into neutrinos. More concretely, with 2020 years of data-taking in the fiducial volume 1717 kton, the cross section will be constrained smaller than 4×1026cm3sec14\times 10^{-26}\,{\rm cm^{3}\,sec^{-1}} for the mass of a DM particle 15MeVmχ50MeV15\,{\rm MeV} \lesssim m_{\chi} \lesssim 50\,{\rm MeV} at 90%90\,\% C.L., which might be strong enough to test thermal production mechanism of DM particles for such range of DM mass. The lifetime will be constrained as strong as 1×1024sec1\times 10^{24}\,{\rm sec} for the mass of a DM particle mχ100MeVm_{\chi} \simeq 100\,{\rm MeV} at 90%90\,\% C.L..

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@article{arxiv.2206.06755,
  title  = {Neutrino lines from MeV dark matter annihilation and decay in JUNO},
  author = {Kensuke Akita and Gaetano Lambiase and Michiru Niibo and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.06755},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v2: 26 pages,10 figures, added profile dependence, subdominant neutrino interactions, and references as well as made some corrections v3: Matches the published version in JCAP