Probing energetic light dark matter with multi-particle tracks signatures at DUNE

De Roeck, Albert; Kim, Doojin; Moghaddam, Zahra Gh.; Park, Jong-Chul; Shin, Seodong; Whitehead, Leigh H.

doi:10.1007/jhep11(2020)043

Title: Probing energetic light dark matter with multi-particle tracks signatures at DUNE

Journal Article · Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 UTC 2020 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)043 · OSTI ID:1851187

De Roeck, Albert ^[1]; Kim, Doojin ^[2]; Moghaddam, Zahra Gh. ^[3];

^[4]; Shin, Seodong ^[5]; Whitehead, Leigh H. ^[6]

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Texas A & M Univ. at Galveston, TX (United States); Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Univ. of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)
Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju (Korea, Republic of)
Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

The search for relativistic scattering signals of cosmogenic light dark matter at terrestrial detectors has received increasing attention as an alternative approach to probe dark-sector physics. Large-volume neutrino experiments are well motivated for searches of dark matter that interacts very weakly with Standard Model particles and/or that exhibits a small incoming flux. We perform a dedicated signal sensitivity study for a detector similar to the one proposed by the DUNE Collaboration for cosmogenic dark-matter signals resulting from a non-minimal multi-particle dark-sector scenario. The liquid argon time projection chamber technology adopted for the DUNE detectors is particularly suited for searching for complicated signatures owing to good measurement resolution and particle identification, as well as dE/dx measurements to recognize merged tracks. Taking inelastic boosted dark matter as our benchmark scenario that allows for multiple visible particles in the final state, we demonstrate that the DUNE far detectors have a great potential for probing scattering signals induced by relativistic light dark matter. Detector effects and backgrounds have been estimated and taken into account. Model-dependent and model-independent expected sensitivity limits for a DUNE-like detector are presented.

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Research Organization:: Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Research Foundation of Korea; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009913; SC0010813

OSTI ID:: 1851187

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2020; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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