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Title: Inelastic dark matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program

Abstract

We study the sensitivity of the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, to MeV- to GeV-scale inelastic dark matter interacting through a dark photon mediator. These models provide interesting scenarios of light thermal dark matter, which, while challenging to probe with direct and indirect detection experiments, are amenable to accelerator-based searches. We consider production of the dark sector states with both the Fermilab Booster 8 GeV and NuMI 120 GeV proton beams and study the signatures of scattering and decay of the heavy excited dark state in the SBN detectors. These distinct signatures probe complementary regions of parameter space. All three experiments will be able to cover new ground, with an excellent near-term opportunity to search for cosmologically motivated targets explaining the observed dark matter abundance.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1826414
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1979915
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE–SC0007914; SC0007914
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 104 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; extensions of fermion sector; extensions of gauge sector; hypothetical particle physics models; particle dark matter; particle production; hypothetical fermions; hypothetical gauge bosons; neutrino detectors; particle decays; particle interactions

Citation Formats

Batell, Brian, Berger, Joshua, Darmé, Luc, and Frugiuele, Claudia. Inelastic dark matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.075026.
Batell, Brian, Berger, Joshua, Darmé, Luc, & Frugiuele, Claudia. Inelastic dark matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.075026
Batell, Brian, Berger, Joshua, Darmé, Luc, and Frugiuele, Claudia. Tue . "Inelastic dark matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.075026.
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title = {Inelastic dark matter at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program},
author = {Batell, Brian and Berger, Joshua and Darmé, Luc and Frugiuele, Claudia},
abstractNote = {We study the sensitivity of the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, to MeV- to GeV-scale inelastic dark matter interacting through a dark photon mediator. These models provide interesting scenarios of light thermal dark matter, which, while challenging to probe with direct and indirect detection experiments, are amenable to accelerator-based searches. We consider production of the dark sector states with both the Fermilab Booster 8 GeV and NuMI 120 GeV proton beams and study the signatures of scattering and decay of the heavy excited dark state in the SBN detectors. These distinct signatures probe complementary regions of parameter space. All three experiments will be able to cover new ground, with an excellent near-term opportunity to search for cosmologically motivated targets explaining the observed dark matter abundance.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.075026},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 7,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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