Foraging for dark matter in large volume liquid scintillator neutrino detectors with multiscatter events
Abstract
We show that dark matter with a per-nucleon scattering cross section ≳10-28 cm2 could be discovered by liquid scintillator neutrino detectors like BOREXINO, SNO+, and JUNO. Due to the large dark matter fluxes admitted, these detectors could find dark matter with masses up to 1021 GeV, surpassing the mass sensitivity of current direct detection experiments (such as XENON1T and PICO) by over two orders of magnitude. We derive the spin-independent and spin-dependent cross section sensitivity of these detectors using existing selection triggers, and propose an improved trigger program that enhances this sensitivity by two orders of magnitude. We interpret these sensitivities in terms of three dark matter scenarios: (1) effective contact operators for scattering, (2) QCD-charged dark matter, and (3) a recently proposed model of Planck-mass baryon-charged dark matter. We calculate the flux attenuation of dark matter at these detectors due to the earth overburden, taking into account the earth's density profile and elemental composition, and nuclear spins.
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- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1507221
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- OSTI ID: 1597774
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- SC0010504; PHY-1066293; PHY-1719271
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Particle dark matter
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Bramante, Joseph, Broerman, Benjamin, Kumar, Jason, Lang, Rafael F., Pospelov, Maxim, and Raj, Nirmal. Foraging for dark matter in large volume liquid scintillator neutrino detectors with multiscatter events. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083010.
Bramante, Joseph, Broerman, Benjamin, Kumar, Jason, Lang, Rafael F., Pospelov, Maxim, & Raj, Nirmal. Foraging for dark matter in large volume liquid scintillator neutrino detectors with multiscatter events. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083010.
Bramante, Joseph, Broerman, Benjamin, Kumar, Jason, Lang, Rafael F., Pospelov, Maxim, and Raj, Nirmal. Tue .
"Foraging for dark matter in large volume liquid scintillator neutrino detectors with multiscatter events". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083010.
@article{osti_1507221,
title = {Foraging for dark matter in large volume liquid scintillator neutrino detectors with multiscatter events},
author = {Bramante, Joseph and Broerman, Benjamin and Kumar, Jason and Lang, Rafael F. and Pospelov, Maxim and Raj, Nirmal},
abstractNote = {We show that dark matter with a per-nucleon scattering cross section ≳10-28 cm2 could be discovered by liquid scintillator neutrino detectors like BOREXINO, SNO+, and JUNO. Due to the large dark matter fluxes admitted, these detectors could find dark matter with masses up to 1021 GeV, surpassing the mass sensitivity of current direct detection experiments (such as XENON1T and PICO) by over two orders of magnitude. We derive the spin-independent and spin-dependent cross section sensitivity of these detectors using existing selection triggers, and propose an improved trigger program that enhances this sensitivity by two orders of magnitude. We interpret these sensitivities in terms of three dark matter scenarios: (1) effective contact operators for scattering, (2) QCD-charged dark matter, and (3) a recently proposed model of Planck-mass baryon-charged dark matter. We calculate the flux attenuation of dark matter at these detectors due to the earth overburden, taking into account the earth's density profile and elemental composition, and nuclear spins.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.083010},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 8,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {4}
}
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