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We consider searches for dark matter annihilation to monoenergetic neutrinos in the core of the Sun. We find that liquid scintillation neutrino detectors have enhanced sensitivity to this class of dark matter models, due to the energy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-14 Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

We determine the neutrino spectra arising from low-mass (4-10 GeV) dark matter annihilating in the sun. We also determine the low-mass dark matter capture rates (element by element in the sun), assuming dark matter interacts either through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-16 Jason Kumar , John G. Learned , Katherine Richardson , Stefanie Smith

We consider the prospects for the detection of relatively light dark matter through direct annihilation to neutrinos. We specifically focus on the detection possibilities of water Cherenkov and liquid scintillator neutrino detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Jason Kumar , John G. Learned , Stefanie Smith

We probe dark matter-electron scattering using high-energy neutrino observations from the Sun. Dark matter (DM) interacting with electrons can get captured inside the Sun. These captured DM may annihilate to produce different Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Tarak Nath Maity , Akash Kumar Saha , Sagnik Mondal , Ranjan Laha

We demonstrate the prompt-delayed signals induced by knockout neutrons from the quasi-elastic scattering in neutrino experiments provides a new avenue for detecting light dark matter. As an illustration, we consider the detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuanlin Gong , Feiran Lin , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu

We explore the electron neutrino signals from light dark matter (DM) annihilation in the Sun for the large liquid scintillator detector JUNO. In terms of the spectrum features of three typical DM annihilation channels $\chi \chi \rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-28 Wan-Lei Guo

We show that dark matter with a per-nucleon scattering cross section $\gtrsim 10^{-28}~{\rm cm^2}$ could be discovered by liquid scintillator neutrino detectors like BOREXINO, SNO+, and JUNO. Due to the large dark matter fluxes admitted,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-24 Joseph Bramante , Benjamin Broerman , Jason Kumar , Rafael F. Lang , Maxim Pospelov , Nirmal Raj

The Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) has detected for the first time the disappearance of electron antineutrinos from a terrestrial source at the 99.95% C.L. Interpreted in terms of neutrino oscillations, the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Jason Detwiler

We study the indirect detection of dark matter through neutrino flux from their annihilation in the center of the Sun, in a class of theories where the dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interactions break the isospin symmetry. We point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Shao-Long Chen , Yue Zhang

In the late stages of nuclear burning for massive stars ($M>8~M_{\sun}$), the production of neutrino-antineutrino pairs through various processes becomes the dominant stellar cooling mechanism. As the star evolves, the energy of these…

KamLAND is a massive liquid-scintillator-based neutrino detector studying low energy neutrino oscillation. The experiment has discovered a large deficit of the reactor neutrino flux with baseline of 180km in the year 2002. This result is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Suekane , T. Iwamoto , H. Ogawa , O. Tajima , H. Watanabe

Dark matter particles gravitationally trapped inside the Sun may annihilate into Standard Model particles, producing a flux of neutrinos. The prospects of detecting these neutrinos in future multi-\kton{} neutrino detectors designed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Sanjib K. Agarwalla , Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez Martinez , Olga Mena

Dark matter capture and annihilation in the Sun can produce detectable high-energy neutrinos, providing a probe of the dark matter-proton scattering cross section. We consider the case when annihilation proceeds via long-lived dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-03 Rebecca K. Leane , Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles accumulated in the Sun could produce a flux of neutrinos, which is potentially detectable with neutrino detectors/telescopes and the DM elastic scattering cross section can be constrained.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-16 Raghuveer Garani , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

The observation of GeV neutrinos coming from the Sun would be an unmistakable signal of dark matter. Current neutrino detectors have so far failed to detect such a signal, however, and bounds from direct and indirect dark matter searches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-20 Nicolao Fornengo , Antonio Masiero , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna

Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Philipp Grothaus , Malcolm Fairbairn , Jocelyn Monroe

We present a new technique for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) searches and a new use of neutrino observatories. DM-electron scattering in an observatory can excite or ionize target molecules, which then produce light that can be detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Rebecca K. Leane , John F. Beacom

We review the prospects for discovering supersymmetric dark matter in a recently proposed set of post-LEP supersymmetric benchmark scenarios. We consider direct detection through spin-independent nuclear scattering, as well as indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis , Jonathan L. Feng , Andrew Ferstl , Konstantin T. Matchev , Keith A. Olive

The LMA solution of the solar neutrino problem has been explored with the 1,000 ton liquid scinatillator detector, KamLAND. It utilizes nuclear power reactors distributing effectively 180km from the experimental site. Comparing observed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Inoue

We study the discovery reach of future Dark Matter (DM) Direct Detection experiments using DM-electron scattering in the presence of the solar neutrino background. At these low energies traditional methods for nuclear and electronic recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 Jason Wyenberg , Ian M. Shoemaker
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