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Hunting sub-GeV dark matter with NOνA near detector

2018/07/17 by Patrick deNiverville, Claudia Frugiuele · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.99.051701

published as Phys. Rev. D 99, 051701 (2019) · 5 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2018/07/17 · arxiv updated 2019/03/13

Abstract

We study the sensitivity of the NOνA near detector to MeV-GeV dark matter while operating symbiotically with the neutrino program. We find that NOνA could explore a large new region of parameter space over the next few years for dark matter masses below 100 MeV, reaching the thermal target for a scalar dark matter particle for some masses. This result represents a significant improvement over existing probes such as Babar, E137, and LSND.

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