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The explorations of alternative dark matter (DM) candidates beyond WIMP motivated primordial black holes (PBHs) or sub-GeV DM particle in the Milky Way. Neutrinos from PBH evaporation at the present times play as a novel medium boosting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-13 Wei Chao , Tong Li , Jiajun Liao

Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a next-generation long baseline neutrino experiment. One of its primary physics goals is to measure neutrino oscillation parameters precisely, including the Dirac CP violating phase. As conventional $\nu_{\mu}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-19 T. Mondal , N. W. Prouse , P. de Perio , M. Hartz , D. Bose

We show that the high-energy cosmic neutrinos seen by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory can be used to probe interactions between neutrinos and the dark sector that cannot be reached by current cosmological methods. The origin of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-09 Carlos A. Argüelles , Ali Kheirandish , Aaron C. Vincent

We investigate the possibility of neutrinos interacting with a scalar dark matter field and the resulting implications for neutrino oscillations in the long-baseline sector. As our Universe is predominantly composed of dark matter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Dharitree Bezboruah , Abinash Medhi , Moon Moon Devi

Short-baseline neutrino (SBN) facilities are optimal for new-physics searches, including the possible production of new particles in and along the neutrino beamline. One such class of models considers states that are created by neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Bhaskar Dutta , Debopam Goswami , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Kevin J. Kelly

Collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino self interaction inside core-collapse supernovae have now been shown to bring drastic changes in the resultant neutrino fluxes. This would in turn significantly affect the diffuse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Sovan Chakraborty , Sandhya Choubey , Basudeb Dasgupta , Kamales Kar

High-energy neutrinos provide a potentially powerful and distinctive probe for dark matter (DM) - neutrino interactions, particularly in environments with enhanced DM densities, such as the DM spikes predicted to form around supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Khushboo Dixit , Gopolang Mohlabeng , Soebur Razzaque

We investigate different neutrino signals from the decay of dark matter particles to determine the prospects for their detection, and more specifically if any spectral signature can be disentangled from the background in present and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Laura Covi , Michael Grefe , Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

Recent cosmological measurements favour additional relativistic energy density beyond the one provided by the three active neutrinos and photons of the Standard Model (SM). This is often referred to as "dark radiation", suggesting the need…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , V. Niro , Jordi Salvado

The existence of a cosmic neutrino background -- the analogue of the cosmic microwave background -- is a fundamental prediction of standard big bang cosmology. Up to now, the observational evidence for its existence is rather indirect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Andreas Ringwald

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

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 paper we explore interactions between neutrinos and Dark Matter. In particular, we study how the propagation of astrophysical neutrinos can be modified by computing the most general potential generated by the galactic DM background.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Gabriel M. Salla

Dark Matter (DM) is a fundamental ingredient of our Universe and of structure formation, and yet its nature is elusive to astrophysical probes. Information on the nature and physical properties of the WIMP (neutralino) DM (the leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-13 Sergio Colafrancesco , Marco Regis , Paolo Marchegiani , Geoff Beck , Rainer Beck , Hannes Zechlin , Andrei Lobanov , Dieter Horns

Core-collapse supernovae serve as powerful probes of light, weakly coupled particles, such as dark photons. The conventional SN1987A cooling bound constrains the dark photon mass-mixing parameter space by requiring that the luminosity from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Aritra Gupta , Manibrata Sen

We have determined the dispersion relation of a neutrino test particle propagating in the cosmic neutrino background. Describing the relic neutrinos and antineutrinos from the hot big bang as a dense medium, a matter potential or refractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 J. S. Diaz , F. R. Klinkhamer

The existence of a cosmic neutrino background has been inferred indirectly from cosmological surveys through its effect on the linear-theory evolution of primordial density perturbations, as well as from measurements of the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Selim C. Hotinli , Nashwan Sabti , Jaxon North , Marc Kamionkowski

Supernova neutrino boosted dark matter (SN$\nu$ BDM) and its afterglow effect have been shown to be a promising signature for beyond Standard Model (bSM) physics. The time-evolution feature of SN$\nu$ BDM allows for %the possibly direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-03 Yen-Hsun Lin , Tsung-Han Tsai , Guey-Lin Lin , Henry Tsz-King Wong , Meng-Ru Wu

We consider the prospects for probing low-mass dark matter with the Super-Kamiokande experiment. We show that upcoming analyses including fully-contained events with sensitivity to dark matter masses from 5 to 10 GeV can test the dark…

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