Search for Cosmic-ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande
Creators: name: Kamiokande Collaboration
name: Abe, K.
name: Hayato, Y.
name: Hiraide, K.
name: Ieki, K.
name: Ikeda, M.
name: Kameda, J.
name: Kanemura, Y.
name: Kaneshima, R.
name: Kashiwagi, Y.
name: Kataoka, Y.
name: Miki, S.
name: Mine, S.
name: Miura, M.
name: Moriyama, S.
name: Nakano, Y.
name: Nakahata, M.
name: Nakayama, S.
name: Noguchi, Y.
name: Okamoto, K.
name: Sato, K.
name: Sekiya, H.
name: Shiba, H.
name: Shimizu, K.
name: Shiozawa, M.
name: Sonoda, Y.
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Takeda, A.
name: Takemoto, Y.
name: Takenaka, A.
name: Tanaka, H.
name: Watanabe, S.
name: Yano, T.
name: Han, S.
name: Kajita, T.
name: Okumura, K.
name: Tashiro, T.
name: Tomiya, T.
name: Wang, X.
name: Xia, J.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Megias, G. D.
name: Fernandez, P.
name: Labarga, L.
name: Ospina, N.
name: Zaldivar, B.
name: Pointon, B. W.
name: Kearns, E.
name: Raaf, J. L.
name: Wan, L.
name: Wester, T.
name: Bian, J.
name: Griskevich, N. J.
name: Kropp, W. R.
name: Locke, S.
name: Smy, M. B.
name: Sobel, H. W.
name: Takhistov, V.
name: Yankelevich, A.
name: Hill, J.
name: Park, R. G.
name: Bodur, B.
name: Scholberg, K.
name: Walter, C. W.
name: Bernard, L.
name: Coffani, A.
name: Drapier, O.
name: Hedri, S. El
name: Giampaolo, A.
name: Mueller, Th. A.
name: Santos, A. D.
name: Paganini, P.
name: Quilain, B.
name: Ishizuka, T.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Jang, J. S.
name: Learned, J. G.
name: Choi, K.
name: Cao, S.
name: Anthony, L. H. V.
name: Martin, D.
name: Scott, M.
name: Sztuc, A. A.
name: Uchida, Y.
name: Berardi, V.
name: Catanesi, M. G.
name: Radicioni, E.
name: Calabria, N. F.
name: Machado, L. N.
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Collazuol, G.
name: Iacob, F.
name: Lamoureux, M.
name: Mattiazzi, M.
name: Ludovici, L.
name: Gonin, M.
name: Pronost, G.
name: Fujisawa, C.
name: Maekawa, Y.
name: Nishimura, Y.
name: Friend, M.
name: Hasegawa, T.
name: Ishida, T.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Jakkapu, M.
name: Matsubara, T.
name: Nakadaira, T.
name: Nakamura, K.
name: Oyama, Y.
name: Sakashita, K.
name: Sekiguchi, T.
name: Tsukamoto, T.
name: Boschi, T.
name: Di Lodovico, F.
name: Gao, J.
name: Goldsack, A.
name: Katori, T.
name: Migenda, J.
name: Taani, M.
name: Zsoldos, S.
name: Kotsar, Y.
name: Ozaki, H.
name: Suzuki, A. T.
name: Takeuchi, Y.
name: Bronner, C.
name: Feng, J.
name: Kikawa, T.
name: Mori, M.
name: Nakaya, T.
name: Wendell, R. A.
name: Yasutome, K.
name: Jenkins, S. J.
name: McCauley, N.
name: Mehta, P.
name: Tsui, K. M.
name: Fukuda, Y.
name: Itow, Y.
name: Menjo, H.
name: Ninomiya, K.
name: Lagoda, J.
name: Lakshmi, S. M.
name: Mandal, M.
name: Mijakowski, P.
name: Prabhu, Y. S.
name: Zalipska, J.
name: Jia, M.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Jung, C. K.
name: Wilking, M. J.
name: Yanagisawa, C.
name: Harada, M.
name: Ishino, H.
name: Ito, S.
name: Kitagawa, H.
name: Koshio, Y.
name: Nakanishi, F.
name: Sakai, S.
name: Barr, G.
name: Barrow, D.
name: Cook, L.
name: Samani, S.
name: Wark, D.
name: Nova, F.
name: Yang, J. Y.
name: Malek, M.
name: McElwee, J. M.
name: Stone, O.
name: Thiesse, M. D.
name: Thompson, L. F.
name: Okazawa, H.
name: Kim, S. B.
name: Seo, J. W.
name: Yu, I.
name: Ichikawa, A. K.
name: Nakamura, K. D.
name: Tairafune, S.
name: Nishijima, K.
name: Iwamoto, K.
name: Nakagiri, K.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Taniuchi, N.
name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Martens, K.
name: de Perio, P.
name: Vagins, M. R.
name: Kuze, M.
name: Izumiyama, S.
name: Inomoto, M.
name: Ishitsuka, M.
name: Ito, H.
name: Kinoshita, T.
name: Matsumoto, R.
name: Ommura, Y.
name: Shigeta, N.
name: Shinoki, M.
name: Suganuma, T.
name: Yamauchi, K.
name: Martin, J. F.
name: Tanaka, H. A.
name: Towstego, T.
name: Akutsu, R.
name: Gousy-Leblanc, V.
name: Hartz, M.
name: Konaka, A.
name: Prouse, N. W.
name: Chen, S.
name: Xu, B. D.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Posiadala-Zezula, M.
name: Hadley, D.
name: Nicholson, M.
name: O'Flaherty, M.
name: Richards, B.
name: Ali, A.
name: Jamieson, B.
name: Marti, Ll.
name: Minamino, A.
name: Pintaudi, G.
name: Sano, S.
name: Suzuki, S.
name: Wada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a search for cosmic-ray boosted dark matter with protons using the 0.37 megaton$\times$years data collected at Super-Kamiokande experiment during the 1996-2018 period (SKI-IV phase). We searched for an excess of proton recoils above the atmospheric neutrino background from the vicinity of the Galactic Center. No such excess is observed, and limits are calculated for two reference models of dark matter with either a constant interaction cross-section or through a scalar mediator. This is the first experimental search for boosted dark matter with hadrons using directional information. The results present the most stringent limits on cosmic-ray boosted dark matter and exclude the dark matter-nucleon elastic scattering cross-section between $10^{-33}\text{ cm}^{2}$ and $10^{-27}\text{ cm}^{2}$ for dark matter mass from 10 MeV/$c^2$ to 1 GeV/$c^2$.
description: With 1-page appendix. A bug was found in July 2023. This version is updated to match the erratum