Prospects for Detecting Boosted Dark Matter in DUNE through Hadronic Interactions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-05-26 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Boosted dark matter (BDM) is a well-motivated class of dark matter (DM) candidates in which a small component of DM is relativistic at the present time. We lay the foundation for BDM searches via hadronic interactions in large liquid-argon time-projection chambers (LArTPCs), such as DUNE. We investigate BDM-nucleus scattering in detail by developing new event generation techniques with a parameterized detector simulation. We study the discovery potential in a DUNE-like experiment using the low threshold and directionality of hadron detection in LArTPCs and compare with other experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1912.05558,
title = {Prospects for Detecting Boosted Dark Matter in DUNE through Hadronic Interactions},
author = {Joshua Berger and Yanou Cui and Mathew Graham and Lina Necib and Gianluca Petrillo and Dane Stocks and Yun-Tse Tsai and Yue Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05558},
year = {2021}
}
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14 pages, 4 figures