Searching for Afterglow: Light Dark Matter Boosted by Supernova Neutrinos

Lin, Yen-Hsun; Wu, Wenhua; Wu, Meng-Ru; Wong, H. T.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.130.111002

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“…We consider two different cases that describe important regimes for the cross section in particular particle physics models [30]: upper limits on the ν-DM scattering cross section, assumed to be energyindependent, for the six benchmark DM spike models of table 1, compared to previous constraints. The latter are: (cyan) CMB and baryon acoustic oscillations [5]; (pink) Lyman-α preferred model [6]; (dark violet, blue) diffuse supernova neutrinos [18]; (orange) stellar neutrinos [15]; (yellow) supernova SN1987A [20]; (green, light steel blue) least and most restrictive bounds, namely for BM3 and BM1 respectively, from TXS 0506+056 [30]. Right: Same, but assuming linear energy-dependent ν-DM and e-DM scattering cross-sections.…”

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“…Neutrinos and dark matter (DM) are the most weakly coupled particles in the Universe; it is intriguing to imagine that they might interact very weakly with each other. Much effort has been made to search for signals of ν-DM interactions, through their effects on cosmology [1][2][3][4][5][6], astrophysics [1,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13], and direct detection of boosted DM [14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and fermionic absorption DM [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Neutrino emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can provide a sensitive probe of ν-DM scattering, in particular from the blazar TXS 0506+056, from which a 290 TeV neutrino was observed by IceCube [29].…”

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NGC 1068 constraints on neutrino-dark matter scattering

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Puel

2023

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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The IceCube collaboration has observed the first steady-state point source of high-energy neutrinos, coming from the active galaxy NGC 1068. If neutrinos interacted strongly enough with dark matter, the emitted neutrinos would have been impeded by the dense spike of dark matter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the galactic center, which powers the emission. We derive a stringent upper limit on the scattering cross section between neutrinos and dark matter based on the observed events and theoretical models of the dark matter spike. The bound can be stronger than that obtained by the single IceCube neutrino event from the blazar TXS 0506+056 for some spike models.

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NGC 1068 constraints on neutrino-dark matter scattering

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Puel

2023

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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“…This idea has first been proposed considering DM boosting from the scattering with energetic galactic cosmic rays [19,20] and has been extensively discussed in the literature, see for instance [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. More recently, the possibility that DM is boosted through its scattering with neutrinos has also been envisaged, either considering cosmic neutrinos [37], solar neutrinos [38], neutrinos from primordial black holes evaporation [39][40][41][42], supernova neutrinos [43,44] or the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) [45,46]. Other possibilities leading to BDM include blazar-boosted DM [47], boosted DM from phantom dark energy [48], confined cosmic rays in starburst galaxies [49], models with semi-annihilating DM [50][51][52] or models with a multi-component DM sector [53][54][55][56].…”

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XENONnT and LUX-ZEPLIN constraints on DSNB-boosted dark matter

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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We consider a scenario in which dark matter particles are accelerated to semi-relativistic velocities through their scattering with the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background. Such a subdominant, but more energetic dark matter component can be then detected via its scattering on the electrons and nucleons inside direct detection experiments. This opens up the possibility to probe the sub-GeV mass range, a region of parameter space that is usually not accessible at such facilities. We analyze current data from the XENONnT and LUX-ZEPLIN experiments and we obtain novel constraints on the scattering cross sections of sub-GeV boosted dark matter with both nucleons and electrons. We also highlight the importance of carefully taking into account Earth's attenuation effects as well as the finite nuclear size into the analysis. By comparing our results to other existing constraints, we show that these effects lead to improved and more robust constraints.

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“…Secret interactions of neutrinos can also be constrained from their interactions with the cosmic neutrino background, which leads to a dissipation of the neutrino energy below the expected value [249]. Neutrinos from an SN can also be used to probe neutrino-dark matter interactions through their interaction with the DM in the galactic halo [252][253][254][255].…”

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Supernova Neutrinos: Flavour Conversion Mechanisms and New Physics Scenarios

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2024

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A core-collapse supernova (SN) releases almost all of its energy in the form of neutrinos, which provide a unique opportunity to probe the working machinery of an SN. These sites are prone to neutrino–neutrino refractive effects, which can lead to fascinating collective flavour oscillations among neutrinos. This causes rapid neutrino flavour conversions deep inside the SN even for suppressed mixing angles, with intriguing consequences for the explosion mechanism as well as nucleosynthesis. We review the physics of collective oscillations of neutrinos—both slow and fast—along with the well-known resonant flavour conversion effects and discuss the current state-of-the-art of the field. Furthermore, we discuss how neutrinos from an SN can be used to probe novel particle physics properties, extreme values of which are otherwise inaccessible in laboratories.

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Searching for Afterglow: Light Dark Matter Boosted by Supernova Neutrinos

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NGC 1068 constraints on neutrino-dark matter scattering

NGC 1068 constraints on neutrino-dark matter scattering

XENONnT and LUX-ZEPLIN constraints on DSNB-boosted dark matter

Supernova Neutrinos: Flavour Conversion Mechanisms and New Physics Scenarios

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