Conveners
Session IV
- Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Session IV
- Matheus Hostert (Perimeter Institute)
We derive purely gravitational constraints on dark matter and cosmic neutrino profiles in the solar system using asteroid (101955) Bennu. We focus on Bennu because of its extensive tracking data and high-fidelity trajectory modeling resulting from the OSIRIS-REx mission. We find that the local density of dark matter is bound by $\rho_{\rm DM} < 3.3\times 10^{-15}\;\rm kg/m^3 \simeq...
In this presentation, I will review the current status of searches for connections between dark matter and neutrinos. Neutrinos can be a gateway to the dark sector as, e.g., they allow for the tree-level decay or annihilation of dark matter into neutrinos. I will describe the constraints on dark matter annihilation, decay, and scattering to neutrinos. Finally, I will provide an outlook for...
We will discuss a novel strategy to search for dark matter (DM)-electron scattering. DM interacting with electrons may get captured inside the Sun. These captured DM may annihilate to produce different Standard Models (SM) particles. Neutrinos produced from these SM states can be observed in IceCube and DeepCore. Although there is no excess of neutrinos from the Solar direction, we find that...
