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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

The $\gamma$-ray and neutrino emissions from dark matter (DM) annihilation in galaxy clusters are studied. After about one year operation of Fermi-LAT, several nearby clusters are reported with stringent upper limits of GeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xin-Min Zhang , Shou-Hua Zhu

High-energy neutrinos provide a potentially powerful and distinctive probe for dark matter (DM) - neutrino interactions, particularly in environments with enhanced DM densities, such as the DM spikes predicted to form around supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Khushboo Dixit , Gopolang Mohlabeng , Soebur Razzaque

We point out that the LDMX (Light Dark Matter eXperiment) detector design, conceived to search for sub-GeV dark matter, will also have very advantageous characteristics to pursue electron-nucleus scattering measurements of direct relevance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Artur M. Ankowski , Alexander Friedland , Shirley Weishi Li , Omar Moreno , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro , Nhan Tran

This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

We study the sensitivity of multi ton-scale time projection chambers using a liquid xenon target, e.g., the proposed DARWIN instrument, to spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering interactions. Taking into account…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-14 Marc Schumann , Laura Baudis , Lukas Bütikofer , Alexander Kish , Marco Selvi

Neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model (BSM) are theoretically well motivated and have an important impact on the future precision measurement of neutrino oscillation. In this work, we study the sensitivity of a multi-ton-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-05 Jonathan M. Link , Xun-Jie Xu

We (re)consider the sensitivity of past (LSND) and future (JSNS^2) beam dump neutrino experiments to two models of MeV-scale pseudo-Dirac dark matter. Both LSND and JSNS^2 are close (24-30 m) to intense sources of light neutral mesons which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Johnathon R. Jordan , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Matthew Moschella , Joshua Spitz

The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, are expected to have significant sensitivity to light weakly coupled hidden sector particles. Here we study the capability of the SBN experiments to probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Brian Batell , Joshua Berger , Ahmed Ismail

We investigate the production of dark matter with non-standard momentum distributions arising from the decay of a relativistic massive neutrino into a lighter fermion and boson H$\rightarrow$F$+$B. We develop the Boltzmann equations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. D. Starkman , N. Kaiser , R. A. Malaney

We consider the medium- and long-baseline oscillation physics capabilities of intense muon-neutrino and muon-antineutrino beams produced using future upgraded megawatt-scale high-energy proton beams. In particular we consider the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , S. Geer , R. Raja , K. Whisnant

Light Dark Matter, $<10$ GeV, with sizable direct detection rate is an interesting and less explored scenario. Collider searches can be very powerful, such as through the channel in which a pair of dark matter particle are produced in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Haipeng An , Xiangdong Ji , Lian-Tao Wang

Nearly-sterile neutrinos with masses in the MeV range and below would be produced in the beam of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab. In this article, we study the potential for SBN to discover these particles through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Peter Ballett , Silvia Pascoli , Mark Ross-Lonergan

We explore the connection between Dark Matter and neutrinos in a model inspired by radiative Type-II seessaw and scotogenic scenarios. In our model, we introduce new electroweakly charged states (scalars and a vector-like fermion) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Roberto A. Lineros , Mathias Pierre

Detection of sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles in direct detection experiments is inherently difficult, as their low kinetic energies in the galactic halo are insufficient to produce observable recoils of the heavy nuclei in the detectors.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Richard Diurba , Helena Kolešová

Dark matter (DM) annihilations in the Galaxy may produce high energy neutrinos, which can be detected by the neutrino telescopes, for example IceCube, ANTARES and Super-Kamiokande. The neutrinos can also arise from hadronic interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng-fei Yin , Jia Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu

The MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations report the results of a joint search for short baseline disappearance of \bar{{\nu}_{\mu}} at Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline. The MiniBooNE Cherenkov detector and the SciBooNE tracking…

The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 R. Mina , M. J. Frank , E. Fries , R. C. Group , A. Norman , I. Oksuzian

High-energy photons with $\mathcal{O}$(MeV) energies from radioactive contaminants can scatter in a solid-state target material and constitute an important low-energy background for sub-GeV dark matter direct-detection searches. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Kim V. Berghaus , Rouven Essig , Yonit Hochberg , Yutaro Shoji , Mukul Sholapurkar

Dark photons, hypothetical feebly interacting massive vector bosons, appear in many extensions of the Standard Model. This study investigates their production and subsequent decay during supernova explosions. We demonstrate that the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Vsevolod Syvolap , Oleg Ruchayskiy