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Title: 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:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [3]
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  1. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
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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)

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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.
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Grossman, Yuval, Harnik, Roni, Telem, Ofri, & Zhang, Yue. Self-Destructing Dark Matter. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)017
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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.
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@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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