Self-Destructing Dark Matter
Abstract
We present Self-Destructing Dark Matter (SDDM), a new class of dark matter models which are detectable in large neutrino detectors. In this class of models, a component of dark matter can transition from a long-lived state to a short-lived one by scattering off of a nucleus or an electron in the Earth. The short-lived state then decays to Standard Model particles, generating a dark matter signal with a visible energy of order the dark matter mass rather than just its recoil. This leads to striking signals in large detectors with high energy thresholds. We present a few examples of models which exhibit self destruction, all inspired by bound state dynamics in the Standard Model. The models under consideration exhibit a rich phenomenology, possibly featuring events with one, two, or even three lepton pairs, each with a fixed invariant mass and a fixed energy, as well as non-trivial directional distributions. This motivates dedicated searches for dark matter in large underground detectors such as Super-K, Borexino, SNO+, and DUNE.
- Authors:
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- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1423228
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1712.00455; FERMILAB-PUB-17-505-T; NUHEP-TH-17-07
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; 1640570
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Dark matter; Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
Citation Formats
Grossman, Yuval, Harnik, Roni, Telem, Ofri, and Zhang, Yue. Self-Destructing Dark Matter. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2019)017.
Grossman, Yuval, Harnik, Roni, Telem, Ofri, & Zhang, Yue. Self-Destructing Dark Matter. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)017
Grossman, Yuval, Harnik, Roni, Telem, Ofri, and Zhang, Yue. Wed .
"Self-Destructing Dark Matter". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423228.
@article{osti_1423228,
title = {Self-Destructing Dark Matter},
author = {Grossman, Yuval and Harnik, Roni and Telem, Ofri and Zhang, Yue},
abstractNote = {We present Self-Destructing Dark Matter (SDDM), a new class of dark matter models which are detectable in large neutrino detectors. In this class of models, a component of dark matter can transition from a long-lived state to a short-lived one by scattering off of a nucleus or an electron in the Earth. The short-lived state then decays to Standard Model particles, generating a dark matter signal with a visible energy of order the dark matter mass rather than just its recoil. This leads to striking signals in large detectors with high energy thresholds. We present a few examples of models which exhibit self destruction, all inspired by bound state dynamics in the Standard Model. The models under consideration exhibit a rich phenomenology, possibly featuring events with one, two, or even three lepton pairs, each with a fixed invariant mass and a fixed energy, as well as non-trivial directional distributions. This motivates dedicated searches for dark matter in large underground detectors such as Super-K, Borexino, SNO+, and DUNE.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2019)017},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 7,
volume = 2019,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
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