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If dark matter particles have an electric charge, as in models of millicharged dark matter, such particles should be accelerated in the same astrophysical accelerators that produce ordinary cosmic rays, and their spectra should have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-02 Ping-Kai Hu , Alexander Kusenko , Volodymyr Takhistov

Non-relativistic Dark Matter (DM) can be accelerated by scattering on high-energy cosmic-ray (CR) electrons. This process leads to a sub-population of relativistic or semi-relativistic DM which extends the experimental reach for direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Ian M. Shoemaker , Natalia Tapia Arellano

Relic neutrinos with mass in the range indicated by Super-Kamiokande results if neutrino masses are hierarchial (about 0.07 eV) are many times deemed too light to be cosmologically relevant. Here we remark that these neutrinos may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Graciela B. Gelmini

Particle dark matter scattering on electrons in the Sun may gravitationally capture and self-annihilate inside it to neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, or other final states that in turn decay to them. Using up-to-date measurements by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Dhashin Krishna , Rinchen Sherpa , Akash Kumar Saha , Tarak Nath Maity , Ranjan Laha , Nirmal Raj

We discuss a limitation on extracting bounds on the scattering cross section of dark matter with nucleons, using neutrinos from the Sun. If the dark matter particle is sufficiently light (less than about 4 GeV), the effect of evaporation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-09 Giorgio Busoni , Andrea De Simone , Wei-Chih Huang

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

It was recently shown that standard sub-GeV dark matter candidates can be effectively probed by large neutrino observatories via annual modulation of the total photomultiplier hit rate. That work focused on the production of light by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Lillian Santos-Olmsted , Rebecca K. Leane , Carlos Blanco , John F. Beacom

Some extensions of the Standard Model provide Dark Matter candidate particles with sub-GeV mass. These Light Dark Matter particles have been considered for example in Warm Dark Matter scenarios (e.g. the keV scale sterile neutrino, axino or…

The Sun can efficiently capture leptophilic dark matter that scatters with free electrons. If this dark matter subsequently annihilates into leptonic states, it can produce a detectable neutrino flux. Using 10 years of Super-Kamiokande…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Thong T. Q. Nguyen , Tim Linden , Pierluca Carenza , Axel Widmark

We describe an approach to detect dark matter and other invisible particles with mass below a GeV, exploiting missing energy-momentum measurements and other kinematic features of fixed-target production. In the case of an invisibly decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

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

We review the annihilation of dark matter into neutrinos over a range of dark matter masses from MeV$/c^2$ to ZeV$/c^2$. Thermally-produced models of dark matter are expected to self-annihilate to standard model products. As no such signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Carlos A. Argüelles , Alejandro Diaz , Ali Kheirandish , Andrés Olivares-Del-Campo , Ibrahim Safa , Aaron C. Vincent

High energy particles are produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in our galaxy. These are presently searched for using balloon-borne antiproton and positron detectors and large area, deep underground neutrino telescopes. Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Halzen , J. E Jacobsen

We derive new constraints on combination of dark matter - electron cross-section ($\sigma_{\chi e}$) and dark matter - neutrino cross-section ($\sigma_{\chi \nu}$) utilising the gain in kinetic energy of the dark matter (DM) particles due…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-30 Diptimoy Ghosh , Atanu Guha , Divya Sachdeva

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

Thermal relics lighter than an MeV contribute to the energy density of the universe at the time of nucleosynthesis and recombination. Constraints on extra radiation degrees of freedom typically exclude even the simplest of such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Asher Berlin , Nikita Blinov

Existing data hints that high energy cosmic ray experiments may offer the most promissing shot at finding a dark matter particle. A search in the PeV mass range is suggested, where the discovery of such a particle might help explain the GZK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-17 Yukio Tomozawa

High energy neutrinos are produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in our galaxy. These are presently searched for with large area, deep underground neutrino telescopes. Cold dark matter particles, trapped inside the sun, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 F. Halzen , J. E. Jacobsen

The recent results of the EDGES collaboration indicate that during the era of reionization, the primordial gas was much colder than expected. The cooling of the gas could be explained by interactions between dark matter (DM) and particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Niki Klop , Shin'ichiro Ando

Strongly-interacting dark matter can be accumulated in large quantities inside the Earth, and for dark matter particles in a few GeV mass range, it can exist in large quantities near the Earth's surface. We investigate the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Yohei Ema , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray