Non-minimal dark matter search in dark matter colliders

¹ Department of Physics & IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
² Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
³ Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

^* e-mail: shinseod@indiana.edu

Published online: 9 January 2018

Abstract

In the scenarios of dark matter (DM) with a non-minimal dark sector, we revisit a new detection strategy of observing two or three simultaneous signals from inelastic scattering of a boosted DM [1]. The relativistically incoming DM can scatter off inelastically to a heavier unstable dark sector particle which decays back in to the DM associated with visible Standard Model particles inside large volume neutrino detectors. The existence of the secondary procedure renders us to separate it from conventional neutrino scattering background. The relativistically incoming DM can come from the universe by the annihilation of heavy DM component in an inelastic boosted DM scenario or produced by the beam bombardments in fixed target experiments.