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Search for Boosted Dark Matter in Super-Kamiokande with low-energy electrons

  • Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
  • Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
  • University of Tokyo
  • Long Beach VA and University of California
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • British Columbia Institute of Technology
  • TRIUMF
  • Boston University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • Chonnam National University
  • Duke University
  • Ip Paris
  • Gifu University
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Hawaii
  • ICISE
  • Imperial College London
  • Politecnico di Bari
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Padova
  • University of Rome
  • Keio University
  • King's College London
  • Kobe University
  • Kyoto University
  • University of Liverpool
  • Miyagi University of Education
  • Nagoya University
  • National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ)
  • Stony Brook University
  • Okayama University
  • Osaka Electro-Communication University
  • University of Oxford
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Seoul National University
  • The University of Sheffield
  • Shizuoka University of Welfare
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Tohoku University
  • Tokai University
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Tokyo University of Science
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Warwick
  • University of Winnipeg
  • Yokohama National University

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Abstract

Despite efforts from numerous experiments to grasp the nature of dark matter, no convincing dark matter signal has been observed so far and the very properties of this invisible matter remain unknown. Nevertheless, strong constraints on these properties are set by current observations, particularly for GeV to TeV WIMP-like dark matter particles. In contrast, sub-GeV dark matter scenarios are largely unexplored and still offer promising prospects for dark matter detection. In this contribution, we conduct a search for low-energy electrons scattered by boosted dark matter particles in the Super-Kamiokande detector. In particular, a two-component dark matter scenario is considered, which results in a natural boosting of the non-secluded secondary dark matter particles produced by the decay or annihilation of the dominant cold dark matter component. This work focuses on boosted dark matter from the centre of our Galaxy, with scattered electron energies ranging from a few MeV to a few hundred of MeV. We present the first sensitivities of such low-energy boosted dark matter search using Super-Kamiokande.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1365
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume444
Publication statusPublished - 27 Sept 2024
Event38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 26 Jul 20233 Aug 2023

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