2019/12/31 by Joshua Berger, Yanou Cui, Mathew Graham +5 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #astro-ph.CO #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.095012
published as Phys. Rev. D 103, 095012 (2021) · 14 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2020/10/06 · arxiv updated 2021/05/26
Boosted dark matter (BDM) is a well-motivated class of dark matter (DM) candidates in which a small component of DM is relativistic at the present time. We lay the foundation for BDM searches via hadronic interactions in large liquid-argon time-projection chambers (LArTPCs), such as DUNE. We investigate BDM-nucleus scattering in detail by developing new event generation techniques with a parameterized detector simulation. We study the discovery potential in a DUNE-like experiment using the low threshold and directionality of hadron detection in LArTPCs and compare with other experiments.