28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
US/Central timezone
Slides available on Indico -- there are no formal proceedings

Observing a light dark matter beam at neutrino experiments

28 Aug 2011, 15:00
25m
A: Wilson Hall 1 West

A: Wilson Hall 1 West

Speaker

Dr Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)

Description

I'll discuss the sensitivity of neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light MeV-GeV scale dark matter. A thermal relic abundance implies annihilation channels via light mediators, providing a portal for access to the dark matter state in colliders or fixed targets. In particular, this framework endows the neutrino beams produced at a fixed target with an additional `dark matter beam', which can mimic neutrino scattering on electrons or nuclei in the (near-)detector. I'll discuss the ensuing sensitivity at facilities such as LSND and MiniBooNE, MINOS, etc. One implication is that MeV-scale dark matter scenarios motivated by an explanation of the galactic 511 keV line are strongly constrained. This is work in progress with Brian Batell, Patrick deNiverville and Maxim Pospelov.

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