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We present a new search for weakly interacting massive particles utilizing ten years of public IceCube data, setting more stringent bounds than previous IceCube analysis on massive dark matter to neutrino annihilation. We also predict the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Kruteesh Desai , Ruohan Li , Stephan Meighen-Berger

Direct detection dark matter experiments, lead by the CDMS collaboration, have placed increasingly stronger constraints on the cross sections for elastic scattering of WIMPs on nucleons. These results impact the prospects for the indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

Next generation direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments will have unprecedented capabilities to explore coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) complementary to dedicated neutrino experiments. We demonstrate that future DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Thomas Schwemberger , Volodymyr Takhistov , Tien-Tien Yu

There is currently vast evidence for Dark Matter (DM) from astronomical observations. However, in spite of tremendous efforts by large experimental groups, there is no confirmed direct detection of the dark matter in our galaxy. Recent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan Estrada

A new set of supersymmetric benchmark scenarios has recently been proposed in the context of the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) with universal soft supersymmetry-breaking masses, taking into account the constraints from LEP, $b \to s \gamma$ and…

In a dedicated run where protons from the Fermilab Booster were delivered directly to the steel beam dump of the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB), the MiniBooNE detector was used to search for the production of sub-GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-29 Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo

Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. This paper discusses how a next generation ton-scale dark matter detector could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 A. J. Anderson , J. M. Conrad , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Scholberg , J. Spitz

A precision measurement of the cosmic-ray positron spectrum may help to solve the puzzle of the nature of dark matter. Pairwise annihilation of neutralinos, predicted by some supersymmetric extensions to the standard model of particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 H. Gast , R. Greim , T. Kirn , G. Roper Yearwood , S. Schael

The EDELWEISS Dark Matter Search uses low-temperature Ge detectors with heat and ionisation read-out to identify nuclear recoils induced by elastic collisions with WIMPs from the galactic halo. Preliminary results obtained with 320g…

The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) is a highly anticipated observational target for neutrino telescopes. However, even prior to collapse, massive dying stars shine copiously in "pre-supernova" (pre-SN) neutrinos, which can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-21 Nirmal Raj , Volodymyr Takhistov , Samuel J. Witte

We propose a new method to detect sub-GeV dark matter, through their scatterings from free leptons and the resulting kinematic shifts. Specially, such an experiment can detect dark matter interacting solely with muons. The experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Alim Ruzi , Chen Zhou , Xiaohu Sun , Dayong Wang , Siguang Wang , Yong Ban , Yajun Mao , Qite Li , Qiang Li

The next generation of dark matter direct detection experiments will be sensitive to both coherent neutrino-nucleus and neutrino-electron scattering. This will enable them to explore aspects of solar physics, perform the lowest energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-13 David G. Cerdeno , Malcolm Fairbairn , Thomas Jubb , Pedro A. N. Machado , Aaron C. Vincent , Celine Boehm

Recently, two dark matter direct detection experiments have announced the first indications of nuclear recoils from solar $^8$B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) with xenon nuclei. These results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Christoph A. Ternes

Supernovae (SNe) are among the most energetic events in the universe still far from being fully understood. An early and prompt detection of neutrinos is a one-time opportunity for the realization of the first multi-messenger observation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Philipp Eller , Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini , Luca Pattavina , Lolian Shtembari

Possible dark matter candidates are reviewed as well as indirect search methods based on annihilation or decay channels of these particles. Neutralino is presently the best particle candidate and its annihilation produces high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 José Antonio De Freitas Pacheco , Sébastien Peirani

The existence of the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering reaction requires to evaluate, for any detector devoted to WIMP searches, the irreducible background due to conventional neutrino sources and at same time, it gives a unique chance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Giovanni De Lellis , Antonia Di Crescenzo , Andrea Gallo Rosso , Valerio Gentile , Francesco Vissani

Direct detection of light dark matter can be significantly enhanced by up-scattering of dark matter with energetic particles in the cosmic ambient. This boosted dark matter flux can reach kinetic energies up to tens of MeV, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Tushar Gupta , Matti Heikinheimo , Katri Huitu , Sk Jeesun

We perform the first comprehensive analysis of the prospects for direct detection of dark matter with future ton-scale detectors in the general 11-dimensional effective theory of isoscalar dark matter-nucleon interactions mediated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-20 Riccardo Catena

Cosmology observations indicate that our universe is composed of 25% dark matter (DM), yet we know little about its microscopic properties. Whereas the gravitational interaction of DM is well understood, its interaction with the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-05 R. T. Thornton , MiniBooNE-DM collaboration

Various issues related to the direct detection of supersymmetric dark matter are reviewed. Such are: 1) Construction of supersymmetric models with a number of parameters, which are constrained from the data at low energies as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados