Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment

Autor: J. Koblanski, J. L. Palomino, Chao Zhang, M. P. Mendenhall, Minfang Yeh, A. J. Conant, A. B. Hansell, C. E. Gilbert, Christopher V. Cappiello, B. T. Foust, J. Wilhelmi, J. LaRosa, A. M. Meyer, R. Neilson, J. K. Gaison, J. Maricic, R. Milincic, G. Deichert, T. J. Langford, D. Venegas-Vargas, Jim Napolitano, C. D. Bryan, Xin Lu, P. E. Mueller, R. L. Varner, Nathaniel Bowden, R. Rosero, X. Zhang, Denis E. Bergeron, D. E. Jaffe, J. A. Nikkel, Xiaolu Ji, Hans P. Mumm, S. Hans, D. C. Jones, A. B. Balantekin, M. A. Tyra, A. Woolverton, O. Kyzylova, S. Nour, Anna Erickson, K. M. Heeger, C. E. Lane, Christopher G. White, T. Classen, C. D. Bass, M. J. Dolinski, P. Weatherly, M. V. Diwan, H. R. Band, A. Galindo-Uribarri, B. R. Littlejohn, P. T. Surukuchi, Dmitry A. Pushin, S. Jayakumar, B. Heffron, Xin Qian, M. Andriamirado
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Physical Review
Popis: If dark matter has mass lower than around 1 GeV, it will not impart enough energy to cause detectable nuclear recoils in many direct-detection experiments. However, if dark matter is upscattered to high energy by collisions with cosmic rays, it may be detectable in both direct-detection experiments and neutrino experiments. We report the results of a dedicated search for boosted dark matter upscattered by cosmic rays using the PROSPECT reactor antineutrino experiment. We show that such a flux of upscattered dark matter would display characteristic diurnal sidereal modulation, and use this to set new experimental constraints on sub-GeV dark matter exhibiting large interaction cross-sections.
11 pages, 8 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE