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Prospects for detecting boosted dark matter in DUNE through hadronic interactions

Berger, Joshua and Cui, Yanou and Graham, Mathew and Necib, Lina and Petrillo, Gianluca and Stocks, Dane and Tsai, Yun-Tse and Zhao, Yue (2021) Prospects for detecting boosted dark matter in DUNE through hadronic interactions. Physical Review D, 103 (9). Art. No. 095012. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.095012. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210518-104054508

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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 the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (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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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.095012DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05558arXivDiscussion Paper
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Cui, Yanou0000-0003-4322-9246
Necib, Lina0000-0003-2806-1414
Petrillo, Gianluca0000-0001-6201-1547
Tsai, Yun-Tse0000-0001-7011-3551
Additional Information:© 2021 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 2 March 2020; revised 27 January 2021; accepted 31 March 2021; published 17 May 2021. We thank Costas Andreopoulos, Robert Hatcher, and Marco Roda for support related to genie. We are grateful to Jonathan Asaadi, Mark Convery and Hirohisa Tanaka, for all the discussion about the features of different detectors, and Aaron Higuera, for the conversation regarding the rate of atmospheric neutrinos. We also thank Jesse Thaler and Kaustubh Agashe for discussion. J. B. was supported by the Pittsburgh Particle Physics Astrophysics and Cosmology Center for part of this work and is currently supported by start-up funds from Colorado State University. Y. C. is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0008541. M. G., G. P., D. S., and Y.-T. T. are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. L. N. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DESC0011632 and the Sherman Fairchild fellowship. Y. Z. is supported by U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0009959.
Group:Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Pittsburgh Particle Physics Astrophysics and Cosmology CenterUNSPECIFIED
Colorado State UniversityUNSPECIFIED
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0008541
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-AC02-76SF00515
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0011632
Sherman Fairchild FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0009959
SCOAP3UNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:9
DOI:10.1103/physrevd.103.095012
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:19 May 2021 18:25
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