Research
Dark-Matter-Induced Nuclear Deexcitation at the Short-Baseline Near Detector with Ab Initio Nuclear Theory
feeds.aps.org · By Bhaskar Dutta, Debopam Goswami, Baishan Hu, Wei-Chih Huang & Vishvas Pandey ·
The Brief
- The paper explores how sensitive the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) experiment is to light dark matter, using MeV-scale electromagnetic activity as the signal.
- It studies inelastic scattering of dark matter off argon nuclei, using ab initio nuclear theory.
- The work is a theoretical sensitivity study and reports no experimental detection.
Why it matters
It tests whether a neutrino detector already under construction at Fermilab could probe light dark matter through a specific nuclear signature, which could guide how the experiment is analysed.
Who’s affected
- particle physicists searching for light dark matter
- nuclear theorists working on ab initio methods
- researchers using liquid argon neutrino detectors
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Author(s): Bhaskar Dutta, Debopam Goswami, Baishan Hu, Wei-Chih Huang, and Vishvas Pandey We explore the sensitivity of the short-baseline near detector (SBND) experiment to light dark matter using MeV-scale electromagnetic activity. Inelastic scattering of dark matter with argon…