Light Dark Matter in the NO$$\nu$$A Near Detector, a First Look at the New Data

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

OSTI ID:1250791

Hatzikoutelis, Athanasios ^[1]

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1. Tennessee U.

The neutrino oscillations experiment NOA is the agship of Fermi National Laboratory. The neutrino source NuMI is delivering record numbers of protons-on-target surpassing the most stringent dark matter production upper limits of current models in the under-10 GeV mass range. We take advantage of the sophisticated particle identication algorithms of the experiment to interrogate the data from the 300-ton, o-axis, low-Z, Near Detector of NOvA during the rst physics runs. We search for signatures of sub-GeV or Light Dark Matter (LDM), Axion-like-particles, and Heavy or Sterile Neutrinos that may scatter or decay in the volume of the detector.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1250791
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-15-371-ND; DESY-PROC-2015-02; 1414317
• Resource Relation: Conference: 11th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Zaragoza, Spain, 06/22-06/26/2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English