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We present a new multi-component dark matter model with a novel experimental signature that mimics neutral current interactions at neutrino detectors. In our model, the dark matter is composed of two particles, a heavier dominant component…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Kaustubh Agashe , Yanou Cui , Lina Necib , Jesse Thaler

The detectability of light dark matter in direct detection experiments is limited by the small kinetic energy of the recoiling targets. Thus, scenarios where dark matter is boosted to relativistic velocities provide a useful tactic to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-25 Nicole F. Bell , Jayden L. Newstead , Iman Shaukat-Ali

Detection of sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles in direct detection experiments is inherently difficult, as their low kinetic energies in the galactic halo are insufficient to produce observable recoils of the heavy nuclei in the detectors.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Richard Diurba , Helena Kolešová

If dark matter self-annihilates into neutrinos or a second component of ("boosted") dark matter that is nucleophilic, the annihilation products may be detected with high rates via coherent nuclear scattering. A future multi-ten-tonne liquid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 David McKeen , Nirmal Raj

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

A novel mechanism of boosting dark matter by cosmic neutrinos is proposed. The new mechanism is so significant that the arriving flux of dark matter in the mass window $1~{\rm keV} \lesssim m_{\rm DM} \lesssim 1~{\rm MeV}$ on Earth can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Yongsoo Jho , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park , Po-Yan Tseng

Sub-GeV Dark Matter particles upscattered by cosmic rays gain enough kinetic energy to pass the thresholds of large volume detectors on Earth. We then use public Super-Kamiokande and MiniBooNE data to derive a novel limit on the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 Yohei Ema , Filippo Sala , Ryosuke Sato

Dark matter with MeV scale mass is difficult to detect with standard direct search detectors. However, they can be searched for by considering the up-scattering of kinetic energies by cosmic rays. Because the dark matter density is higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Keiko I. Nagao , Satoshi Higashino , Tatsuhiro Naka , Kentaro Miuchi

The physics responsible for the production of observed high-energy neutrinos have not been established so far, neither for the diffuse astrophysical ones nor for those detected from single blazars. We recently proposed that both could be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrea Giovanni De Marchi , Alessandro Granelli , Jacopo Nava , Filippo Sala

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

This study explores a two-component dark matter model in which one component, heavier dark matter, annihilates into a lighter dark matter. The lighter dark matter is expected to generate detectable signals in detectors due to its enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Keiko I. Nagao , Tatsuhiro Naka , Takaaki Nomura

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

We consider neutrinos scattering off Milky Way dark matter and the impact of this scattering on supernovae neutrinos. This can take the form of attenuation on the initial flux of neutrinos and a time-delayed flux of scattered neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Garv Chauhan , R. Andrew Gustafson , Gonzalo Herrera , Taj Johnson , Ian Shoemaker

We propose to search for a boosted dark matter (DM) particle from astrophysical sources using an emulsion detector in deep underground facilities. We further propose using high-$Z$ material such as the lead for a larger DM-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Xin Chen , Litao Yang

The direct detection of cosmic neutrino background (CNB) has been a longstanding challenge in particle physics, due to its low number density and tiny neutrino masses. In this work, we consider the spectrum of the CNB boosted by cosmic rays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 Wei Chao , Jing-jing Feng , Mingjie Jin , Tong Li

Neutrino and dark matter experiments with large-volume ($\gtrsim 1$ ton) detectors can provide excellent sensitivity to signals induced by energetic light dark matter coming from the present universe. Taking boosted dark matter as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Doojin Kim , Pedro A. N. Machado , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

What if the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section is too small to be detected by direct detection experiments? It is well known in the literature that some interactions lead to dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-19 Tarak Nath Maity , Farinaldo S Queiroz

Light (sub-GeV) dark matter has gained increasing interest in terms of direct detection. Accelerated dark matter is a promising candidate that can generate detectable nuclear recoil energy within the sub-GeV range. Because of the large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Celestial objects such as stars and planets might be able to capture a large amount of dark matter particles through dark matter-nucleon scattering. Many previous studies have considered different celestial objects such as the Sun and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Detections of non-gravitational interactions of massive dark matter (DM) with visible sector so far have given null results. The DM may communicate with the ordinary matter only through gravitational interaction. Besides, the majority of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Wenyu Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Hang Zhou , Bin Zhu