Nucleus Capture by Macroscopic Dark Matter
Dec 5, 201921 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 05 (2020) 160
- Published: May 29, 2020
e-Print:
- 1912.02813 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- PITT-PACC-1912
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Abstract: (Springer)
For a class of macroscopic dark matter with a large interaction strength with Standard Model particles, a nucleus could be captured by the dense, heavy dark matter as it traverses ordinary material. The radiated photon carries most of the binding energy and is a characteristic signature for dark matter detection. We develop analytic formulas and present numerical results for this radiative capture process in the low energy, non-dipole limit. Large-volume neutrino detectors like NOνA, JUNO, DUNE and Super(Hyper)-K may detect multi-hit or single-hit radiative capture events and can search for dark matter up to one gram in mass.Note:
- 21 pages, 7 figures, updated to journal version
- Beyond Standard Model
- Neutrino Physics
- Solitons Monopoles and In- stantons
- dark matter: heavy
- dark matter: direct detection
- nucleus: capture
- radiative capture
- neutrino: detector
- binding energy
- JUNO
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