Speaker
Gopolang Mohlabeng
(University of Kansas)
Description
We explore detection prospects of a non-standard dark sector in the context of boosted dark
matter, which could be detected as visible Cherenkov light in large volume neutrino detectors. In models with multiple candidates, self-interaction of dark matter particles is naturally utilized in the assisted freeze-out mechanism and is corroborated by various cosmological studies such as N-body simulations of structure formation. We show that self-interaction of the secluded (heavier) dark matter greatly enhances the capture rate in the Sun and results in promising signals at current and future experiments. We perform a detailed analysis of the boosted dark matter events for Super-K, Hyper-K and PINGU.
Author
Gopolang Mohlabeng
(University of Kansas)
