Searching for dark matter annihilation to monoenergetic neutrinos with liquid scintillation detectors

Kumar, J.; Sandick, P.

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/035

Title: Searching for dark matter annihilation to monoenergetic neutrinos with liquid scintillation detectors

Journal Article · Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/035· OSTI ID:1598666

Kumar, J. ^[1]; Sandick, P. ^[2]

Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

We consider searches for dark matter annihilation to monoenergetic neutrinos in the core of the Sun. We find that liquid scintillation neutrino detectors have enhanced sensitivity to this class of dark matter models, due to the energy and angular resolution possible for electron neutrinos and antineutrinos that scatter via charged-current interactions. In particular we find that KamLAND, utilizing existing data, could provide better sensitivity to such models than any current direct detection experiment for mX lesssim 15 Gev. KamLAND's sensitivity is signal-limited, and future liquid scintillation or liquid argon detectors with similar energy and angular resolution, but with larger exposure, will provide significantly better sensitivity. These detectors may be particularly powerful probes of dark matter with mass Script O(10) GeV.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010504

OSTI ID:: 1598666

Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 06; ISSN 1475-7516

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