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We revisit the possibility that neutrinos undergo non-radiative decay. We investigate the potential to extract information on the neutrino lifetime-to-mass ratio from the diffuse supernova neutrino background. To this aim, we explicitly…

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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…

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Neutrinos being massive could undergo non-radiative decay, a property for which the diffuse supernova neutrino background has a unique sensitivity. We extend previous analyses to explore our ability to disentangle predictions for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Noah Roux , M. Cristina Volpe

Since the Super-Kamiokande (SK) neutrino experiment in Japan added gadolinium sulphate octahydrate (Gd) to the pure water in its detector, it has entered a new era in supernova neutrino detection. The addition of Gd makes it possible to tag…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-02 L. Kneale

Core-collapse supernovae, among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). We explore the potential to detect the BDM produced by supernovae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Badal Bhalla , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

In the absence of high-statistics supernova neutrino measurements, estimates of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) hinge on the precision of simulations of core-collapse supernovae. Understanding the cooling phase of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Nick Ekanger , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kei Kotake , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We study the ability of the Hyper-Kamiokande (HyperK) experiment, currently under construction, to constrain a neutrino signal produced via the annihilation of dark matter captured in the Sun. We simulate upward stopping and upward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-08 Nicole F. Bell , Matthew J. Dolan , Sandra Robles

Context: The detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background may be imminent, but theoretical predictions are affected by substantial uncertainties. AIMS. We calculate the signal and its uncertainty with the present configuration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-09 Francesco Vissani , Giulia Pagliaroli

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

Future neutrino detectors will obtain high-statistics data from a nearby core-collapse supernova. We study the mixing with eV-mass sterile neutrinos in a supernova environment and its effects on the active neutrino fluxes as detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Tarso Franarin , Jonathan H. Davis , Malcolm Fairbairn

It has been recently proposed that the boosted dark matter (BDM) by supernova neutrinos (SN$\nu$) from SN1987a or from the next Galactic supernova (SN) can serve as a novel component to probe nonvanishing interaction between dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-16 Yen-Hsun Lin , Meng-Ru Wu

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

Neutrinos from blazars can originate from inelastic scatterings between protons within their jets and sub-GeV dark matter (DM) around them, explaining IceCube detections of neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 that are otherwise challenging for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Andrea Giovanni De Marchi , Alessandro Granelli , Jacopo Nava , Filippo Sala

Diffuse neutrinos from past supernovae in the Universe present us with a unique opportunity to test dark matter (DM) interactions. These neutrinos can scatter and boost the DM particles in the Milky Way halo to relativistic energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-24 Anirban Das , Tim Herbermann , Manibrata Sen , Volodymyr Takhistov

We (re)consider the sensitivity of past (LSND) and future (JSNS^2) beam dump neutrino experiments to two models of MeV-scale pseudo-Dirac dark matter. Both LSND and JSNS^2 are close (24-30 m) to intense sources of light neutral mesons which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Johnathon R. Jordan , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Matthew Moschella , Joshua Spitz

We estimate the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) using the recent progenitor-dependent, long-term supernova simulations from the Basel group and including neutrino oscillations at several post-bounce times. Assuming multi-angle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Cecilia Lunardini , Irene Tamborra

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

I review the status and perspectives of the research on the diffuse flux of (core collapse) supernova neutrinos (DF). In absence of a positive signal, several upper bounds exist in different detection channels. Of these, the strongest is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cecilia Lunardini

When muons travel through matter, their energy losses lead to nuclear breakup ("spallation") processes. The delayed decays of unstable daughter nuclei produced by cosmic-ray muons are important backgrounds for low-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Shirley Weishi Li , John F. Beacom

We consider multi-messenger constraints on very heavy dark matter (VHDM) from recent Fermi gamma-ray and IceCube neutrino observations of isotropic background radiation. Fermi data on the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGB) shows a possible…

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