arXiv:1912.05558·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Prospects for Detecting Boosted Dark Matter in DUNE through Hadronic Interactions
Joshua Berger🇺🇸 · Yanou Cui🇺🇸 · Mathew Graham🇺🇸 · Lina Necib🇺🇸 · Gianluca Petrillo🇺🇸 · Dane Stocks🇺🇸 · Yun-Tse Tsai🇺🇸 · Yue Zhao🇺🇸
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.
Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures