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The upcoming long baseline neutrino experiments aim to enhance proton beam power to multi-MW scale and utilize large-scale detectors to address the challenge of limited event statistics. The DUNE experiment at LBNF will test the three…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Ganguly Sudeshna

Light new particles with masses below 10 keV, often considered as a plausible extension of the Standard Model, will be emitted from the solar interior, and can be detected on the Earth with a variety of experimental tools. Here we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

Slow liquid scintillator Cherenkov detectors have been proposed as part of several future neutrino experiments because they can provide both directionality and energy measurements. This feature is expected to enhance the sensitivities for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-18 Ziyi Guo , Minfang Yeh , Rui Zhang , De-Wen Cao , Ming Qi , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

We determine the prospects for direct and indirect detection of thermal relic neutralinos in supersymmetric theories with multi-TeV squarks and sleptons. We consider the concrete example of the focus point region of minimal supergravity,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Patrick Draper , Jonathan Feng , Philipp Kant , Stefano Profumo , David Sanford

The type Ib seesaw, as an alternative explanation to the origin of neutrino mass, provides a new intriguing way to connect the neutrino physics to cosmology. In this proceeding, we consider a minimal type Ib seesaw model where the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Bowen Fu

As low-threshold dark matter detectors advance in development, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino properties. We predict the enhancement of the event rate of solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Thomas Schwemberger , Tien-Tien Yu

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…

Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single-electron ionization signals, which are detectable with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-01 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Tomer Volansky

Clear methods to differentiate between decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) scenarios are still by and large unavailable. In this note, we study the potential astrophysical signatures of a new class of hidden sector decaying DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-11 Joshua T. Ruderman , Tomer Volansky

Short baseline neutrino experiments such as LSND and MiniBooNE seem to suggest the existence of light sterile neutrinos. Meanwhile, current cosmic microwave background (CMB) and big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) measurements place an upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Chiu Man Ho , Robert J. Scherrer

Dark Matter particles with inelastic interactions are ubiquitous in extensions of the Standard Model, yet remain challenging to fully probe with existing strategies. We propose a series of powerful searches at hadron and lepton colliders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Brian Shuve

We explore the prospect of constraining light mediators at the next generation direct detection dark matter detectors through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-07 Anirban Majumdar , D. K. Papoulias , Rahul Srivastava

We revisit the signatures from collisions of cosmic-rays on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way. In addition to the upscattered DM component that can be probed by existing DM and neutrino experiments widely discussed, we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-09 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu , Qiang Yuan

Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments. However, newly proposed technology will allow the detection of single electron events in semiconductor materials with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Matthew T. Walters

New light, weakly-coupled particles are commonly invoked to address the persistent $\sim 4\sigma$ anomaly in $(g-2)_\mu$ and serve as mediators between dark and visible matter. If such particles couple predominantly to heavier generations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will utilize a beamline located at Fermilab to provide and aim a neutrino beam of sufficient intensity and appropriate energy range toward the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) detectors,…

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

Dark matter direct detection experiments involving electron recoils are beginning to test highly-predictive, thermal-relic milestones for sub-GeV dark matter models. Due to the Lee-Weinberg bound, thermal dark matter candidates in this mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Xu Han , Gordan Krnjaic

The ICARUS-T600 detector is a 760-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) currently operating at Fermilab as the Far Detector in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The SBN program is composed of three LArTPCs with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-12 Anna Heggestuen