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Title: Searching for boosted dark matter via dark-photon bremsstrahlung

Abstract

We propose a new search channel for boosted dark matter (BDM) signals coming from the present universe, which are distinct from simple neutrino signals including those coming from the decay or pair-annihilation of dark matter. The signal process is initiated by the scattering of high-energetic BDM off either an electron or a nucleon. If the dark matter is dark-sector U(1)-charged, the scattered BDM may radiate a dark gauge boson (called “dark-strahlung”) which subsequently decays to a Standard Model fermion pair. We point out that the existence of this channel may allow for the interpretation that the associated signal stems from BDM, not from the dark-matter-origin neutrinos. Although the dark-strahlung process is generally subleading compared to the lowest-order simple elastic scattering of BDM, we find that the BDM with a significant boost factor may induce an O(10–20%) event rate in the parameter regions unreachable by typical beam-produced dark-matter. We further find that the dark-strahlung channel may even outperform the leading-order channel in the search for BDM, especially when the latter is plagued by substantial background contamination. We argue that cosmogenic BDM searches readily fall in such a case, hence taking full advantage of dark-strahlung. As a practical application, experimental sensitivities expectedmore » in the leading-order and dark-strahlung channels are contrasted in dark gauge boson parameter space, under the environment of DUNE far-detectors, revealing usefulness of dark-strahlung.« less

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Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1559091
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1611218
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-13ER41976; SC0009913
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Particle dark matter; Hypothetical gauge bosons

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Kim, Doojin, Park, Jong-Chul, and Shin, Seodong. Searching for boosted dark matter via dark-photon bremsstrahlung. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035033.
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Kim, Doojin, Park, Jong-Chul, & Shin, Seodong. Searching for boosted dark matter via dark-photon bremsstrahlung. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035033
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Kim, Doojin, Park, Jong-Chul, and Shin, Seodong. Wed . "Searching for boosted dark matter via dark-photon bremsstrahlung". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035033.
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@article{osti_1559091,
title = {Searching for boosted dark matter via dark-photon bremsstrahlung},
author = {Kim, Doojin and Park, Jong-Chul and Shin, Seodong},
abstractNote = {We propose a new search channel for boosted dark matter (BDM) signals coming from the present universe, which are distinct from simple neutrino signals including those coming from the decay or pair-annihilation of dark matter. The signal process is initiated by the scattering of high-energetic BDM off either an electron or a nucleon. If the dark matter is dark-sector U(1)-charged, the scattered BDM may radiate a dark gauge boson (called “dark-strahlung”) which subsequently decays to a Standard Model fermion pair. We point out that the existence of this channel may allow for the interpretation that the associated signal stems from BDM, not from the dark-matter-origin neutrinos. Although the dark-strahlung process is generally subleading compared to the lowest-order simple elastic scattering of BDM, we find that the BDM with a significant boost factor may induce an O(10–20%) event rate in the parameter regions unreachable by typical beam-produced dark-matter. We further find that the dark-strahlung channel may even outperform the leading-order channel in the search for BDM, especially when the latter is plagued by substantial background contamination. We argue that cosmogenic BDM searches readily fall in such a case, hence taking full advantage of dark-strahlung. As a practical application, experimental sensitivities expected in the leading-order and dark-strahlung channels are contrasted in dark gauge boson parameter space, under the environment of DUNE far-detectors, revealing usefulness of dark-strahlung.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.035033},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 3,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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