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We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

Dark matter candidates arising in models of particle physics incorporating weak scale supersymmetry may produce detectable signals through their annihilation into neutrinos, photons, or positrons. A large number of relevant experiments are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev , Frank Wilczek

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

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

This is a review of high energy neutrino astronomy that might be done with a kilometer-scale detector. The emphasis is on diffuse neutrinos of extragalactic origin and their relation to possible sources of the highest energy cosmic rays,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. K. Gaisser

Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Andrea Gaspert , Pietro Giampa , David E. Morrissey

An array of powerful neutrino-beam experiments will study the fundamental properties of neutrinos with unprecedented precision in the coming years. Along with their primary neutrino-physics motivations, there has been growing recognition…

In this work we analyse the ultimate sensitivity of dark matter direct detection experiments, the "neutrino-floor", in the presence of anomalous sources of dark radiation in form of SM or semi-sterile neutrinos. This flux-component is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-01 Marco Nikolic , Suchita Kulkarni , Josef Pradler

Over the past decade, neutrino astronomy has emerged as a new window into the extreme and hidden universe. Current-generation experiments have detected high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin and identified the first sources, opening…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-25 C. A. Argüelles , F. Halzen , N. Kurahashi

Nonzero neutrino masses guarantee new physics and neutrinos are excellent probes of extreme environments in the Universe. The recent collider neutrino experimental program, including FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC, along with the planned Forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Bei Zhou , Pedro Machado

The significance of light massive neutrinos as hot dark matter is outlined. The power of neutrino oscillation experiments with respect to detect such neutrinos in the eV-region is discussed. Present hints for neutrino oscillations in solar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Zuber

We investigate the effect of new physics interacting with both Dark Matter (DM) and neutrinos at DM direct detection experiments. Working within a simplified model formalism, we consider vector and scalar mediators to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Enrico Bertuzzo , Frank F. Deppisch , Suchita Kulkarni , Yuber F. Perez Gonzalez , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. In this paper, we consider how neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

Current and future neutrino experiments can be used to discover dark matter, not only in searches for dark matter annihilating to neutrinos, but also in scenarios where dark matter itself scatters off Standard Model particles in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-19 Lina Necib , Jarrett Moon , Taritree Wongjirad , Janet M. Conrad

The majority of the matter in the universe is still unidentified and under investigation by both direct and indirect means. Many experiments searching for the recoil of dark-matter particles off target nuclei in underground laboratories…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Klasen , Martin Pohl , Günter Sigl

Dark matter detection experiments are getting ever closer to the sensitivity needed to detect the primary particle physics candidates for nonbaryonic dark matter. Indirect detection methods include searching for antimatter and gamma rays,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Bergstrom

I give a brief review of a few recent developments and future directions in the search for dark matter using high-energy neutrinos from the Sun. This includes the ability to recast neutrino telescope limits on nuclear scattering of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Pat Scott

Sensitive dark matter (DM) experiments can be well exploited beyond their designated targets, allowing to explore a breadth of physics topics. As we discuss, future large direct DM detection experiments constitute impressive telescopes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Volodymyr Takhistov

There should be not doubt by now that neutrino telescopes are competitive instruments when it comes to searches for dark matter. Their large detector volumes collect hundreds of neutrinos per day. They scrutinize the whole sky continuously,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-27 Carlos Pérez de los Heros

As is well known, dark matter direct detection experiments will ultimately be limited by a "neutrino floor," due to the scattering of nuclei by MeV neutrinos from, e.g., nuclear fusion in the Sun. Here we point out the existence of a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter , Carsten Rott