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 20 years of data-taking in the fiducial volume 17 kton, the cross section will be constrained smaller than 4×10−26cm3sec−1 for the mass of a DM particle 15MeV≲mχ≲50MeV at 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 1×1024sec for the mass of a DM particle mχ≃100MeV at 90% C.L..
@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