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Recently, two dark matter direct detection experiments have announced the first indications of nuclear recoils from solar $^8$B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) with xenon nuclei. These results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Christoph A. Ternes

We introduce the mono-neutrino signal at neutrino detectors as a smoking gun of sub-GeV scale dark matter candidates that mainly interact with standard model neutrinos. In a mono-neutrino process, invisible particles, either dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Kevin J. Kelly , Yue Zhang

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

Dark matter direct detection experiments are going to touch the neutrino floor with a good chance to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and a probe of neutrino-related new physics ($\nu$NP). In this study, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments have been setting strong limits on the DM-nucleon scattering cross section at the DM mass above a few GeV, but leave large parameter space unexplored in the low mass region. DM is likely to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-22 Zhan-Hong Lei , Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

New particles in theories beyond the standard model can manifest as stable relics that interact strongly with visible matter and make up a small fraction of the total dark matter abundance. Such particles represent an interesting physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-10 David McKeen , David E. Morrissey , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani , Anupam Ray

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

As dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments continue to improve their sensitivity they will inevitably encounter an irreducible background arising from coherent neutrino scattering. This so-called "neutrino floor" may significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-01 Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov , Samuel J. Witte

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

We study the possibility that dark radiation, sourced through the decay of dark matter in the late Universe, carries electromagnetic interactions. The relativistic flux of particles induces recoil signals in direct detection and neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Jui-Lin Kuo , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

The next generation of dark matter direct detection experiments will be sensitive to both coherent neutrino-nucleus and neutrino-electron scattering. This will enable them to explore aspects of solar physics, perform the lowest energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-13 David G. Cerdeno , Malcolm Fairbairn , Thomas Jubb , Pedro A. N. Machado , Aaron C. Vincent , Celine Boehm

We survey the sensitivity of past and present neutrino experiments to MeV-GeV scale dark matter, and find that these experiments possess novel sensitivity that has not yet fully explored. NO$\nu$A and BEBC are found to rule out the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Luca Buonocore , Patrick deNiverville , Claudia Frugiuele

The origin of neutrino mass remains an open question in particle physics. One intriguing possibility is that neutrinos are massless in vacuum but acquire an effective refractive mass through interactions with ultralight dark matter during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Federica Pompa , Manibrata Sen

Experimental developments in neutrino telescopes are drastically improving their ability to constrain the annihilation cross-section of dark matter. In this paper, we employ an angular power spectrum analysis method to probe the galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 S. Basegmez du Pree , C. Arina , A. Cheek , A. Dekker , M. Chianese , S. Ando

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

Recent results from several direct detection experiments have imposed severe constraints on the multi-GeV mass window for various dark matter (DM) models. However, many of these experiments are not sensitive to MeV scale DM as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Debajyoti Choudhury , Divya Sachdeva

We present constraints on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) through the mechanism of being boosted by cosmic rays (CRs). We utilize the nuclear recoil data from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment for this purpose. Without the mechanism of boosted dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Atanu Guha , Jong-Chul Park

Dark matter detectors that utilize liquid xenon have now achieved tonne-scale targets, giving them sensitivity to all flavours of supernova neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Considering for the first time a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Rafael F. Lang , Christopher McCabe , Shayne Reichard , Marco Selvi , Irene Tamborra

Direct detection is a powerful means of searching for particle physics evidence of dark matter (DM) heavier than about a GeV with $\mathcal O(kiloton)$ volume, low-threshold detectors. In many scenarios, some fraction of the DM may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Javier F. Acevedo , Joshua Berger , Peter B. Denton

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…

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