31 May 2023 to 2 June 2023
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Dark Matter Pollution in the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

31 May 2023, 11:59
5m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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Speaker

Sandra Robles (Fermilab)

Description

Upcoming neutrino experiments are expected to detect the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). This requires pondering all possible sources of background. Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) which annihilates into neutrinos is a potential background that has not been considered so far. We simulate DSNB and DM signals, as well as backgrounds in the Hyper-Kamiokande detector. We find that DM-induced neutrinos could indeed alter the extraction of the correct values of the parameters of interest for DSNB physics. While this opens the possibility of simultaneously characterizing the DNSB and discovering DM 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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Primary author

Sandra Robles (Fermilab)

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