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Heavy stable fourth generation Majorana neutrinos contribute to a small fraction of the relic density of dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Due to its relatively strong coupling to the standard model particles, it can be probed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-13 Yu-Feng Zhou

IceCube detects neutrinos at energies orders of magnitude higher than any neutrinos produced at particle accelerators. Neutrinos are weakly interacting particles but at energies above 30 TeV the Earth becomes opaque to neutrinos. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Sally Robertson

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

Rates of coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering at a high-intensity stopped-pion neutrino source in various detector materials (relevant for novel low-threshold detectors) are calculated. Sensitivity of a coherent neutrino-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kate Scholberg

Cubic kilometer neutrino telescopes are capable of probing fundamental questions of ultra-high energy neutrino interactions. There is currently great interest in neutrino interactions caused by low-scale, extra dimension models. Above 1 PeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pankaj Jain , Supriya Kar , Douglas W. McKay , Sukanta Panda , John P. Ralston

Strange quark contributions to neutrino(antineutrino) scattering are investigated on the nucleon level in the quasi-elastic region. The incident energy range between 500 MeV and 1.0 GeV is used for the scattering. All of the physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Myung-Ki Cheoun , K. S. Kim

Future cosmological data may be sensitive to the effects of a finite sum of neutrino masses even as small as ~0.06 eV, the lower limit guaranteed by neutrino oscillation experiments. We show that a cosmological detection of neutrino mass at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico

In this work, we explore the impact of dark matter (DM) relic density and direct detection constraints on a GeV scale DM in the context of recent anomalous muon magnetic moment $(g-2)_{\mu}$ measurement; a $ 5.1 \sigma$ discrepancy with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-01 Kuldeep Deka , Soumya Sadhukhan , Manvinder Pal Singh

The irreducible upscattering of cold dark matter by cosmic rays opens up the intriguing possibility of detecting even light dark matter in conventional direct detection experiments or underground neutrino detectors. The mechanism also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-02 James Alvey , Torsten Bringmann , Helena Kolesova

Experiments aiming to detect coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering present opportunities to probe new light weakly-coupled states, such as sub-GeV mass dark matter, in several extensions of the Standard Model. These states can be produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

We consider the generic possibility that the Universe's energy budget includes some form of relativistic or semi-relativistic dark radiation (DR) with non-gravitational interactions with Standard Model (SM) particles. Such dark radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Yanou Cui , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

In this work we investigate the production of a dark fermionic particle $\chi$ in the neutrino scattering experiments. In the framework of effective field theory, such process can be induced by the effective four-fermion interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruofei Feng , Shao-Feng Ge , Yongchao Zhang

We perform a new dark matter hot spot analysis using ten years of public IceCube data. This analysis assumes dark matter self-annihilates to neutrino pairs and treats the production sites as discrete point sources. As a result, these sites…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-15 Stephan Meighen-Berger , Martina Karl

We determine constraints on sterile neutrino warm dark matter through direct detection experiments, taking XENON100, XENON1T and DARWIN as examples. If keV-scale sterile neutrinos scatter inelastically with bound electrons of the target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-11 Miguel D. Campos , Werner Rodejohann

Presently, there are several experimental setups dedicated to rare event searches, such as dark matter interactions or double beta decay, in the building or commissioning phases. These experiments often use large mass detectors and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Carlos Martinez Amaya , Matteo Biassoni

We employ data from the recently observed high-energy neutrino events at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to constrain interactions between the dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way and the neutrino sector. We construct an extended un-binned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Carlos Argüelles , Ali Kheirandish , Aaron C. Vincent

Heavy fourth generation Majorana neutrino can be stable and contribute to a small fraction of the relic density of dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Due to its strong coupling to the standard model particles, it can be probed by the current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Yu-Feng Zhou

Cross sections for the interactions of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos with nucleons are evaluated in light of new information about nucleon structure functions. For $10^{20}$--eV neutrinos, the cross section is about 2.4 times previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 Raj Gandhi , Chris Quigg , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

Certain strongly interacting dark matter candidates could have evaded detection, and much work has been done on constraining their parameter space. Recently, it was shown theoretically that the scattering cross section for $m_\chi \gtrsim…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-11 Christopher V. Cappiello , J. I. Collar , John F. Beacom

The cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B) can be boosted to high energies due to scatterings with energetic cosmic rays (CRs) across cosmological scales. Previous calculations focused on neutral current incoherent and coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Gonzalo Herrera , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Xiaolin Qi , Ian M. Shoemaker