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We argue that the detection of neutrino signature from the Earth's core can effectively probe the coupling of heavy dark matter ($m_{\chi}>10^{4}$ GeV) to nucleons. We first note that direct searches for dark matter (DM) in such a mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Guey-Lin Lin , Yen-Hsun Lin , Fei-Fan Lee

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

Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) to several PeV energies, but this has yet to be confirmed as general behavior. Although several sources show ~100 TeV gamma rays, their hadronic origin is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Emily Simon , Rebecca Diesing , Damiano Caprioli , Stephen Sclafani

We study the high-luminosity fixed-target neutrino experiments at MiniBooNE, MINOS and T2K and analyze their sensitivity to light stable states, focusing on MeV--GeV scale dark matter. Thermal relic dark matter scenarios in the sub-GeV mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-04 Patrick deNiverville , David McKeen , Adam Ritz

Hyper-Kamiokande is a proposed next-generation general purpose neutrino detection experiment. It comprises an underground water Cherenkov detector that will be more than 8 times as large as the highly successful Super-Kamiokande and use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Jost Migenda

In this paper, we study the prospects for determining the nature of neutrinos in the context of a supersymmetric $B-L$ extension of the standard model by using dark matter indirect detection signals and bounds on $N_{\text{eff}}$ from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-15 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Sheldon S. Campbell , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao

We present a new, state-of-the-art computation of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), where we use neutrino spectra from multi-dimensional, multi-second core collapse supernova simulations - including both neutron-star and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Cecilia Lunardini , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tomoya Kinugawa , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kei Kotake

Due to the low nuclear recoils, sub-GeV dark matter (DM) is usually beyond the sensitivity of the conventional DM direct detection experiments. The boosted and Migdal scattering mechanisms have been proposed as two new complementary avenues…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Victor V. Flambaum , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

The direct detection of particle dark matter through its scattering with nucleons is of fundamental importance to understand the nature of DM. In this work, we propose that the high-energy neutrino detectors like IceCube can be used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-26 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu

Astrophysical dark matter particles with masses well below GeV-scale can be difficult to detect using conventional nuclear recoil experiments due to their low velocities in our Milky Way halo. Elastic scattering with high-energy cosmic rays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Xiaoyong Chu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Mei-Wen Yang

A novel approach is proposed to reveal a secret birth of enhanced circumstellar material (CSM) surrounding a collapsing massive star using neutrinos as a unique probe. In this scheme, non-thermal TeV-scale neutrinos produced in ejecta-CSM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Ryo Sawada , Yosuke Ashida

The spectral study of the HESS J1745-290 high energy gamma-ray cut-off from the galactic center is compatible with a signal of Dark Matter (DM) annihilation or decay. If this is the case, a neutrino flux from that source is also expected.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 J. A. R. Cembranos , V. Gammaldi , A. L. Maroto

The scattering of neutrinos off dark matter can induce time delays in their propagation compared to that of photons, which would wash out correlations between ultra-high-energy neutrinos and electromagnetic observations of their sources -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-11 Seth Koren

Neutrinos from supernovae (SNe) are crucial probes of explosive phenomena at the deaths of massive stars and neutrino physics. High-energy neutrinos are produced through hadronic processes by cosmic rays, which are accelerated during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-29 Kohta Murase

We demonstrate that current and planned underground neutrino experiments could offer a powerful probe of few-MeV dark matter when combined with a nearby high-intensity low-to-medium energy electron accelerator. This experimental setup, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Maxim Pospelov

The elastic nuclear recoil signal, being under intense scrutiny by multiple underground experiments, can be interpreted either as coming from the interaction of nuclei with WIMP dark matter or from the scattering of new species of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

An upper bound to the supernova relic neutrino background from all past Type II supernovae is obtained using observations of the Universal metal enrichment history. We show that an unambiguous detection of these relic neutrinos by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 M. Kaplinghat , G. Steigman , T. P. Walker

The indirect detection of dark matter (DM) through its annihilation products is one of the primary strategies for DM detection. One of the least constrained classes of models is neutrinophilic DM, because the annihilation products, weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Anna M. Suliga , George M. Fuller

The elusive nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains a mystery far from being solved. A vast effort is dedicated to search for signatures of feeble DM interactions with Standard Model particles. In this work, we explore the signatures of axion DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-03 Pierluca Carenza , Pedro De la Torre Luque

Up to now searches for Dark Matter (DM) detection have not been successful, either because our paradigm in how DM signals should look like are wrong or the detector sensitivity is still too low in spite of the large progress made in recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-20 Wim de Boer