Speaker
Badal Bhalla
(University of Oklahoma)
Description
Core-collapse supernovae, among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). We explore the potential to detect the BDM produced by supernovae with a focus on fermionic dark matter that interacts with the visible sector through a dark gauge boson. Our results indicate that major current and future large-volume neutrino detectors DUNE, Hyper-Kamiokande, and JUNO can significantly constrain or discover BDM within compelling parameter spaces, with sensitivity notably enhanced during nearby supernova occurrences.
Authors
Badal Bhalla
(University of Oklahoma)
Doojin Kim
Fazlollah Hajkarim
(University of Oklahoma)
Kuver Sinha
(University of Oklahoma)
