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Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Philipp Grothaus , Malcolm Fairbairn , Jocelyn Monroe

Fluxes of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) are calculated based on a new modeling of galactic chemical evolution, where a variable stellar initial mass function (IMF) depending on the galaxy type is introduced and black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Yosuke Ashida , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Takuji Tsujimoto

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

We revisit cosmological neutrino mass bounds when a fraction of dark matter is allowed to decay to massless dark radiation. By compensating the late-time increase in the matter density induced by neutrinos becoming non-relativistic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Thomas Montandon , Vivian Poulin , Thomas Rink , Thomas Schwetz

The diffuse cosmic supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is observational target of the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector and the forthcoming JUNO and Hyper-Kamiokande detectors. Current predictions are hampered by our still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Daniel Kresse , Thomas Ertl , Hans-Thomas Janka

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has measured astrophysical neutrinos using through-going and starting events in the TeV to PeV energy range. The origin of these astrophysical neutrinos is still largely unresolved, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Barbara Skrzypek , Marco Chianese , Carlos Argüelles Delgado

Fully understanding the average core-collapse supernova requires detecting the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) in all flavors. While the DSNB $\bar{\nu}_e$ flux is near detection, and the DSNB $\nu_e$ flux has a good upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Anna M. Suliga , John F. Beacom , Irene Tamborra

The future detection and measurement of the diffuse neutrino supernova background will shed light on the rate of supernovae events in the Universe, the star formation rate and the neutrino spectrum from each supernova. Little has been said…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 J. Barranco , Argelia Bernal , D. Delepine

We report the limits on the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) flux and the fundamental DSNB parameters measured from the first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, a dual-phase xenon detector located at the Sanford…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-20 Qing Xia

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

Due to the dense environment, neutron stars (NSs) can serve as an ideal laboratory for studying the interactions between dark matter (DM) and ordinary matter. In the process of DM capture, deep inelastic scattering may dominate over elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Meiwen Yang

Neutrino-induced recoil events may constitute a background to direct dark matter searches, particularly for those detectors that strive to reach the ton-scale and beyond. This paper discusses the expected neutrino-induced background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Louis E. Strigari

Scalar (fermion) dark matter with mass in the MeV range coupled to ordinary neutrinos and another fermion (scalar) is motivated by scenarios that establish a link between radiatively generated neutrino masses and the dark matter relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Yasaman Farzan , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Superheavy dark matter may show its presence in high energy neutrino signals detected on earth. From the latest results of IceCube, we could set the strongest lower bound on the lifetime of dark matter beyond 100 TeV around $10^{28} {\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-28 Carsten Rott , Kazunori Kohri , Seong Chan Park

Cosmic rays scattering with neutrinos produced in supernovae induce a flux of supernova neutrinos boosted to high energies. We calculate the neutrino flux arising from this new mechanism in environments with large cosmic-ray and supernova…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Gonzalo Herrera , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We explore the supernova neutrino-boosted dark matter (SN$\nu$BDM) and its direct detection. During core-collapse supernovae, an abundance of neutrinos are emitted. These supernova neutrinos can transfer their kinetic energy to the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jun-Wei Sun , Lei Wu , Yan-Hao Xu , Bin Zhu

LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) has been proposed as a next generation 50 kt liquid scintillator detector. Its large target mass allows to search for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), which was generated by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Randolph Möllenberg , Franz von Feilitzsch , Dominikus Hellgartner , Lothar Oberauer , Marc Tippmann , Jürgen Winter , Michael Wurm , Vincenz Zimmer

The diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) created by stellar core-collapses throughout cosmic history is on the verge of discovery, with SK-Gd showing early deviations from the background expectation and JUNO starting to take data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Tim Charissé , David Maksimović , George A. Parker , Michael Wurm

Recent Super-Kamiokande analyses of the diffuse supernova neutrino background, based on data across all SK phases, indicate a mild preference over the zero-DSNB hypothesis at the level of about $2.3\sigma$ with electron-like antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Motoi Endo , Yushi Mura , Tenta Tsuji

Dark stars (DSs) -- first stars powered by dark-matter (DM) heating rather than fusion -- could form in the early Universe. They can grow to $\gtrsim 10^5 M_{\odot}$ masses and collapse into seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Thomas Schwemberger , Volodymyr Takhistov