Prospects for Detecting Boosted Dark Matter in DUNE through Hadronic Interactions [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05558


Boosted dark matter (BDM) is a well-motivated class of dark matter candidates in which a small subcomponent is relativistic at the present time. In this work, we lay the foundation for BDM searches via its hadronic interactions at DUNE. We investigate BDM-nucleus scattering in detail by developing new dedicated event generation techniques with a parameterized detector simulation. We demonstrate that the excellent event reconstruction capability of DUNE enables a significantly broader discovery reach.

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J. Berger, Y. Cui, M. Graham, et. al.
Fri, 13 Dec 19
57/75

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures