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

  • Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
  • Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
  • Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
  • University of Tokyo
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Long Beach VA and University of California
  • Facultad de Ciencias
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Department of Physics
  • British Columbia Institute of Technology
  • TRIUMF
  • Boston University

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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.

langue originaleAnglais
Numéro d'article1365
journalProceedings of Science
Volume444
étatPublié - 27 sept. 2024
Evénement38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japon
Durée: 26 juil. 20233 août 2023

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