Neutrino Topology Reconstruction at DUNE and Applications to Searches for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun
arXiv:1903.04175 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/006
Abstract
We consider a new technique for neutrino energy and topology reconstruction at DUNE. In particular, we show that when the direction of the incoming neutrino is known, one can use the measured directions of the outgoing leptonic and hadronic particles to reconstruct poorly-measured quantities, such as the hadronic cascade energy. We show that this alternative technique yields an energy resolution which is comparable to current reconstruction methods which sum measured energies. As a proof of concept we apply this new reconstruction method to a search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun. We show that the use of directional information from both the leptonic and hadronic interaction products allows one to effectively reject backgrounds and isolate the signal, giving competitive sensitivities.
arXiv comment24 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables
References in corpus (40)
- Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints
- Secluded WIMP Dark Matter
- New results from DAMA/LIBRA
- PPPC 4 DM ID: A Poor Particle Physicist Cookbook for Dark Matter Indirect Detection
- Compatibility of DAMA/LIBRA dark matter detection with other searches
- Atmospheric neutrino flux calculation using the NRLMSISE00 atmospheric model
- Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
- Energy Reconstruction Methods in the IceCube Neutrino Telescope
- Physics Potential of a Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande
- DarkSUSY 6 : An Advanced Tool to Compute Dark Matter Properties Numerically
- The ArgoNeuT Detector in the NuMI Low-Energy beam line at Fermilab
- Matrix element analyses of dark matter scattering and annihilation
- Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of interactions at the far detector
- Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
- Final Results of the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment
- Characterisation of nuclear effects in muon-neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon with a measurement of final-state kinematics and correlations in charged-current pionless interactions at T2K
- Powerful Solar Signatures of Long-Lived Dark Mediators
- Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Self-Annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore
- Understanding the energy resolution of liquid argon neutrino detectors
- Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos: A New Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Searches
- New Sensitivity to Solar WIMP Annihilation using Low-Energy Neutrinos
- A novel way of constraining WIMPs annihilations in the Sun: MeV neutrinos
- Mono-Neutrino at DUNE: New Signals From Neutrinophilic Thermal Dark Matter
- Neutrinos from cosmic ray interactions in the Sun
- Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering
- Impact of Dark Matter Velocity Distributions on Capture Rates in the Sun
- Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos and the Sensitivity Floor for Solar Dark Matter Annihilation Searches
- Measurement of Through-Going Particle Momentum By Means Of Multiple Scattering With The ICARUS T600 TPC
- Comparison of the calorimetric and kinematic methods of neutrino energy reconstruction in disappearance experiments
- Measurement of Partonic Nuclear Effects in Deep-Inelastic Neutrino Scattering using MINERvA
- Search for neutrino emission from relic dark matter in the Sun with the Baikal NT200 detector
- Tools for Studying Low-Mass Dark Matter at Neutrino Detectors
- Looking for Exotic Multiquark States in Nonleptonic B Decays
- Dark Matter Searches for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising from Stopped Meson Decay in the Sun
- Solar WIMPs Unraveled: Experiments, astrophysical uncertainties, and interactive Tools
- Isospin-Violating Dark Matter in the Sun
- High energy neutrinos from the Sun
- Directional Searches at DUNE for Sub-GeV Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun
- NuWro Monte Carlo generator of neutrino interactions - first electron scattering results
- Measurement of the single production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water
Cited by in corpus (6)
- Sub-GeV Atmospheric Neutrinos and CP-Violation in DUNE
- A quantum Monte Carlo based approach to intranuclear cascades
- Neutrinos from the Sun can discover dark matter-electron scattering
- Simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at DUNE
- Directional Neutrino Searches for Galactic Center Dark Matter at Large Underground LArTPCs
- Searching for solar KDAR with DUNE