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Dark matter pollution in the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

May 27, 2022

18 pages

Published in:

JCAP 11 (2022) 060,
JCAP 11 (2022) 060

Published: Nov 30, 2022

e-Print:

2205.14123 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/060

Report number:

KCL-PH-TH/2022-32

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Abstract: (IOP)

The Hyper-Kamiokande (HyperK) experiment is expected to precisely measure the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). This requires that the backgrounds in the relevant energy range are well understood. One possible background that has not been considered thus far is the annihilation of low-mass dark matter (DM) to neutrinos. We conduct simulations of the DSNB signal and backgrounds in HyperK, and quantify the extent to which DM annihilation products can pollute the DSNB signal. We find that the presence of DM could affect the determination of the correct values of parameters of interest for DSNB physics, such as effective neutrino temperatures and star formation rates. While this opens the possibility of simultaneously characterising the DNSB and discovering dark matter via indirect detection, we argue that it would be hard to disentangle the two contributions due to the lack of angular information available at low energies.

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18 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Matches published version

supernova neutrinos
dark matter theory
neutrino detectors
dark matter: annihilation
neutrino: background
neutrino: supernova
neutrino: temperature
star: formation
flux
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