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W-boson and trident production in TeV--PeV neutrino observatories
Bei Zhou, John F. Beacom
Detecting TeV--PeV cosmic neutrinos provides crucial tests of neutrino physics and astrophysics. The statistics of IceCube and the larger proposed IceCube-Gen2 demand calculations…
Neutrino-nucleus cross sections for W-boson and trident production
Bei Zhou, John F. Beacom
The physics of neutrino-nucleus cross sections is a critical probe of the Standard Model and beyond. A precise understanding is also needed to accurately deduce astrophysical neutr…
(Not as) Big as a Barn: Upper Bounds on Dark Matter-Nucleus Cross Sections
Matthew C. Digman, Christopher V. Cappiello, John F. Beacom +2
Critical probes of dark matter come from tests of its elastic scattering with nuclei. The results are typically assumed to be model-independent, meaning that the form of the potent…
Strong New Limits on Light Dark Matter from Neutrino Experiments
Christopher V. Cappiello, John F. Beacom
The non-detection of GeV-scale WIMPs has led to increased interest in more general candidates, including sub-GeV dark matter. Direct detection experiments, despite their high sensi…
TeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Unitarity and its Consequences
Juri Smirnov, John F. Beacom
We re-examine unitarity bounds on the annihilation cross section of thermal-WIMP dark matter. For high-mass pointlike dark matter, it is generic to form WIMP bound states, which, t…