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JUNO sensitivity to the annihilation of MeV dark matter in the galactic halo
Angel Abusleme5,41, Thomas Adam46, Shakeel Ahmad67, Rizwan Ahmed67, Sebastiano Aiello56, Muhammad Akram67, Abid Aleem67, Tsagkarakis Alexandros49, Fengpeng An29, Qi An22, Giuseppe Andronico56, Nikolay Anfimov68, Vito Antonelli58, Tatiana Antoshkina68, Burin Asavapibhop72, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André46, Didier Auguste44, Weidong Bai20, Nikita Balashov68, Wander Baldini57, Andrea Barresi59, Davide Basilico58, Eric Baussan46, Marco Bellato61, Antonio Bergnoli61, Thilo Birkenfeld49, Sylvie Blin44, David Blum55, Simon Blyth10, Anastasia Bolshakova68, Mathieu Bongrand48, Clément Bordereau45,40, Dominique Breton44, Augusto Brigatti58, Riccardo Brugnera62, Riccardo Bruno56, Antonio Budano65, Jose Busto47, Anatael Cabrera44, Barbara Caccianiga58, Hao Cai34, Xiao Cai10, Yanke Cai10, Zhiyan Cai10, Riccardo Callegari62, Antonio Cammi60, Agustin Campeny5, Chuanya Cao10, Guofu Cao10, Jun Cao10, Rossella Caruso56, Cédric Cerna45, Chi Chan38, Jinfan Chang10, Yun Chang39, Guoming Chen28, Pingping Chen18, Po-An Chen40, Shaomin Chen13, Xurong Chen26, Yixue Chen11, Yu Chen20, Zhiyuan Chen10, Zikang Chen20, Jie Cheng11, Yaping Cheng7, Yu Chin Cheng40, Alexey Chetverikov68, Davide Chiesa59, Pietro Chimenti3, Ziliang Chu10, Artem Chukanov68, Gérard Claverie45, Catia Clementi63, Barbara Clerbaux2, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo45, Daniele Corti61, Flavio Dal Corso61, Olivia Dalager75, Christophe De La Taille45, Zhi Deng13, Ziyan Deng10, Wilfried Depnering52, Marco Diaz5, Xuefeng Ding58, Yayun Ding10, Bayu Dirgantara74, Sergey Dmitrievsky68, Tadeas Dohnal42, Dmitry Dolzhikov68, Georgy Donchenko70, Jianmeng Dong13, Evgeny Doroshkevich69, Wei Dou13, Marcos Dracos46, Frédéric Druillole45, Ran Du10, Shuxian Du37, Stefano Dusini61, Martin Dvorak42, Jessica Eck55, Timo Enqvist43, Andrea Fabbri65, Ulrike Fahrendholz53, Donghua Fan24, Lei Fan10, Jian Fang10, Wenxing Fang10, Marco Fargetta56, Dmitry Fedoseev68, Zhengyong Fei10, Li-Cheng Feng38, Qichun Feng21, Federico Ferraro58, Richard Ford58, Amélie Fournier45, Haonan Gan32, Feng Gao49, Alberto Garfagnini62, Arsenii Gavrikov68, Marco Giammarchi58, Nunzio Giudice56, Maxim Gonchar68, Guanghua Gong13, Hui Gong13, Yuri Gornushkin68, Alexandre Göttel51,49, Marco Grassi62, Vasily Gromov68, Minghao Gu10, Xiaofei Gu37, Yu Gu19, Mengyun Guan10, Yuduo Guan10, Nunzio Guardone56, Cong Guo10, Jingyuan Guo20, Wanlei Guo10, Xinheng Guo8, Yuhang Guo35, Caren Hagner50, Ran Han7, Yang Han20, Miao He10, Wei He10, Tobias Heinz55, Patrick Hellmuth45, Yuekun Heng10, Rafael Herrera5, YuenKeung Hor20, Shaojing Hou10, Yee Hsiung40, Bei-Zhen Hu40, Hang Hu20, Jianrun Hu10, Jun Hu10, Shouyang Hu9, Tao Hu10, Yuxiang Hu10, Zhuojun Hu20, Guihong Huang24, Hanxiong Huang9, Kaixuan Huang20, Wenhao Huang25, Xin Huang10, Xingtao Huang25, Yongbo Huang28, Jiaqi Hui30, Lei Huo21, Wenju Huo22, Cédric Huss45, Safeer Hussain67, Ara Ioannisian1, Roberto Isocrate61, Beatrice Jelmini62, Ignacio Jeria5, Xiaolu Ji10, Huihui Jia33, Junji Jia34, Siyu Jian9, Di Jiang22, Wei Jiang10, Xiaoshan Jiang10, Xiaoping Jing10, Cécile Jollet45, Jari Joutsenvaara43, Leonidas Kalousis46, Philipp Kampmann54,51, Li Kang18, Rebin Karaparambil48, Narine Kazarian1, Amina Khatun71, Khanchai Khosonthongkee74, Denis Korablev68, Konstantin Kouzakov70, Alexey Krasnoperov68, Nikolay Kutovskiy68, Pasi Kuusiniemi43, Tobias Lachenmaier55, Cecilia Landini58, Sébastien Leblanc45, Victor Lebrin48, Frederic Lefevre48, Ruiting Lei18, Rupert Leitner42, Jason Leung38, Daozheng Li10, Demin Li37, Fei Li10, Fule Li13, Gaosong Li10, Huiling Li10, Mengzhao Li10, Min Li10, Nan Li10, Nan Li16, Qingjiang Li16, Ruhui Li10, Rui Li30, Shanfeng Li18, Tao Li20, Teng Li25, Weidong Li10,14, Weiguo Li10, Xiaomei Li9, Xiaonan Li10, Xinglong Li9, Yi Li18, Yichen Li10, Yufeng Li10, Zepeng Li10, Zhaohan Li10, Zhibing Li20, Ziyuan Li20, Zonghai Li34, Hao Liang9, Hao Liang22, Jiajun Liao20, Ayut Limphirat74, Guey-Lin Lin38, Shengxin Lin18, Tao Lin10, Jiajie Ling20, Ivano Lippi61, Fang Liu11, Haidong Liu37, Haotian Liu34, Hongbang Liu28, Hongjuan Liu23, Hongtao Liu20, Hui Liu19, Jianglai Liu30,31, Jinchang Liu10, Min Liu23, Qian Liu14, Qin Liu22, Runxuan Liu51,49, Shubin Liu22, Shulin Liu10, Xiaowei Liu20, Xiwen Liu28, Yan Liu10, Yunzhe Liu10, Alexey Lokhov70,69, Paolo Lombardi58, Claudio Lombardo56, Kai Loo52, Chuan Lu32, Haoqi Lu10, Jingbin Lu15, Junguang Lu10, Peizhi Lu20, Shuxiang Lu37, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev69, Sultim Lubsandorzhiev69, Livia Ludhova51,49, Arslan Lukanov69, Daibin Luo10, Fengjiao Luo23, Guang Luo20, Shu Luo36, Wuming Luo10, Xiaojie Luo10, Vladimir Lyashuk69, Bangzheng Ma25, Bing Ma37, Qiumei Ma10, Si Ma10, Xiaoyan Ma10, Xubo Ma11, Jihane Maalmi44, Marco Magoni58, Jingyu Mai20, Yury Malyshkin54, Roberto Carlos Mandujano75, Fabio Mantovani57, Xin Mao7, Yajun Mao12, Stefano M. Mari65, Filippo Marini62, Cristina Martellini65, Gisele Martin-Chassard44, Agnese Martini64, Matthias Mayer53, Davit Mayilyan1, Ints Mednieks66, Artur Meinusch52, Yue Meng30, Anselmo Meregaglia45, Emanuela Meroni58, David Meyhöfer50, Mauro Mezzetto61, Jonathan Miller6, Lino Miramonti58, Marta Colomer Molla2, Paolo Montini65, Michele Montuschi57, Axel Müller55, Massimiliano Nastasi59, Dmitry V. Naumov68, Elena Naumova68, Diana Navas-Nicolas44, Igor Nemchenok68, Minh Thuan Nguyen Thi38, Feipeng Ning10, Zhe Ning10, Hiroshi Nunokawa4, Lothar Oberauer53, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux75,5,41, Alexander Olshevskiy68, Domizia Orestano65, Fausto Ortica63, Rainer Othegraven52, Alessandro Paoloni64, Sergio Parmeggiano58, Yatian Pei10, Luca Pelicci51,49, Nicomede Pelliccia63, Anguo Peng23, Haiping Peng22, Yu Peng10, Zhaoyuan Peng10, Frédéric Perrot45, Pierre-Alexandre Petitjean2, Fabrizio Petrucci65, Oliver Pilarczyk52, Luis Felipe Piñeres Rico46, Artyom Popov70, Pascal Poussot46, Ezio Previtali59, Fazhi Qi10, Ming Qi27, Sen Qian10, Xiaohui Qian10, Zhen Qian20, Hao Qiao12, Zhonghua Qin10, Shoukang Qiu23, Gioacchino Ranucci58, Neill Raper20, Reem Rasheed45, Alessandra Re58, Henning Rebber50, Abdel Rebii45, Mariia Redchuk62,61, Bin Ren18, Jie Ren9, Barbara Ricci57, Mariam Rifai51,49, Mathieu Roche45, Narongkiat Rodphai72, Aldo Romani63, Bedřich Roskovec42, Xichao Ruan9, Arseniy Rybnikov68, Andrey Sadovsky68, Paolo Saggese58, Simone Sanfilippo65, Anut Sangka73, Utane Sawangwit73, Julia Sawatzki53, Michaela Schever51,49, Cédric Schwab46, Konstantin Schweizer53, Alexandr Selyunin68, Andrea Serafini57, Giulio Settanta76,51, Mariangela Settimo48, Zhuang Shao35, Vladislav Sharov68, Arina Shaydurova68, Jingyan Shi10, Yanan Shi10, Vitaly Shutov68, Andrey Sidorenkov69, Fedor Šimkovic71, Chiara Sirignano62, Jaruchit Siripak74, Monica Sisti59, Maciej Slupecki43, Mikhail Smirnov20, Oleg Smirnov68, Thiago Sogo-Bezerra48, Sergey Sokolov68, Julanan Songwadhana74, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum73, Albert Sotnikov68, Ondřej Šrámek42, Warintorn Sreethawong74, Achim Stahl49, Luca Stanco61, Konstantin Stankevich70, Dušan Štefánik71, Hans Steiger52,53, Jochen Steinmann49, Tobias Sterr55, Matthias Raphael Stock53, Virginia Strati57, Alexander Studenikin70, Jun Su20, Shifeng Sun11, Xilei Sun10, Yongjie Sun22, Yongzhao Sun10, Zhengyang Sun30, Narumon Suwonjandee72, Michal Szelezniak46, Jian Tang20, Qiang Tang20, Quan Tang23, Xiao Tang10, Vidhya Thara Hariharan50, Eric Theisen52, Alexander Tietzsch55, Igor Tkachev69, Tomas Tmej42, Marco Danilo Claudio Torri58, Konstantin Treskov68, Andrea Triossi46, Giancarlo Troni5, Wladyslaw Trzaska43, Cristina Tuve56, Nikita Ushakov69, Vadim Vedin66, Giuseppe Verde56, Maxim Vialkov70, Benoit Viaud48, Cornelius Moritz Vollbrecht51,49, Cristina Volpe44, Katharina Von Sturm62, Vit Vorobel42, Dmitriy Voronin69, Lucia Votano64, Pablo Walker5,41, Caishen Wang18, Chung-Hsiang Wang39, En Wang37, Guoli Wang21, Jian Wang22, Jun Wang20, Lu Wang10, Meifen Wang10, Meng Wang23, Meng Wang25, Ruiguang Wang10, Siguang Wang12, Wei Wang27, Wei Wang20, Wenshuai Wang10, Xi Wang16, Xiangyue Wang20, Yangfu Wang10, Yaoguang Wang10, Yi Wang10, Yi Wang13, Yi Wang24, Yifang Wang10, Yuanqing Wang13, Yuman Wang27, Zhe Wang13, Zheng Wang10, Zhimin Wang10, Zongyi Wang13, Apimook Watcharangkool73, Wei Wei10, Wei Wei25, Wenlu Wei10, Yadong Wei18, Kaile Wen10, Liangjian Wen10, Jun Weng13, Christopher Wiebusch49, Steven Chan-Fai Wong20, Bjoern Wonsak50, Diru Wu10, Qun Wu25, Zhi Wu10, Michael Wurm52, Jacques Wurtz46, Christian Wysotzki49, Yufei Xi32, Dongmei Xia17, Xiang Xiao20, Xiaochuan Xie28, Yuguang Xie10, Zhangquan Xie10, Zhao Xin10, Zhizhong Xing10, Benda Xu13, Cheng Xu23, Donglian Xu31,30, Fanrong Xu19, Hangkun Xu10, Jilei Xu10, Jing Xu8, Meihang Xu10, Yin Xu33, Baojun Yan10, Qiyu Yan14, Taylor Yan74, Wenqi Yan10, Xiongbo Yan10, Yupeng Yan74, Changgen Yang10, Chengfeng Yang28, Huan Yang10, Jie Yang37, Lei Yang18, Xiaoyu Yang10, Yifan Yang10, Yifan Yang2, Haifeng Yao10, Jiaxuan Ye10, Mei Ye10, Ziping Ye31, Frédéric Yermia48, Zhengyun You20, Boxiang Yu10, Chiye Yu18, Chunxu Yu33, Hongzhao Yu20, Miao Yu34, Xianghui Yu33, Zeyuan Yu10, Zezhong Yu10, Cenxi Yuan20, Chengzhuo Yuan10, Ying Yuan12, Zhenxiong Yuan13, Baobiao Yue20, Noman Zafar67, Vitalii Zavadskyi68, Shan Zeng10, Tingxuan Zeng10, Yuda Zeng20, Liang Zhan10, Aiqiang Zhang13, Bin Zhang37, Binting Zhang10, Feiyang Zhang30, Guoqing Zhang10, Honghao Zhang20, Jialiang Zhang27, Jiawen Zhang10, Jie Zhang10, Jin Zhang28, Jingbo Zhang21, Jinnan Zhang10, Mohan Zhang10, Peng Zhang10, Qingmin Zhang35, Shiqi Zhang20, Shu Zhang20, Tao Zhang30, Xiaomei Zhang10, Xin Zhang10, Xuantong Zhang10, Yinhong Zhang10, Yiyu Zhang10, Yongpeng Zhang10, Yu Zhang10, Yuanyuan Zhang30, Yumei Zhang20, Zhenyu Zhang34, Zhijian Zhang18, Fengyi Zhao26, Jie Zhao10, Rong Zhao20, Runze Zhao10, Shujun Zhao37, Dongqin Zheng19, Hua Zheng18, Yangheng Zheng14, Weirong Zhong19, Jing Zhou9, Li Zhou10, Nan Zhou22, Shun Zhou10, Tong Zhou10, Xiang Zhou34, Jiang Zhu20, Jingsen Zhu29, Kangfu Zhu35, Kejun Zhu10, Zhihang Zhu10, Bo Zhuang10, Honglin Zhuang10, Liang Zong13, Jiaheng Zou10, Sebastian Zwickel53 and The JUNO collaboration
2 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
3 Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
4 Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
6 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
7 Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, Beijing, China
8 Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
9 China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
10 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
11 North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
12 School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
13 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
14 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
15 Jilin University, Changchun, China
16 College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
17 Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
18 Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China
19 Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
20 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
21 Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
22 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
23 The Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry Group in University of South China, Hengyang, China
24 Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China
25 Shandong University, Jinan, China, and Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation of Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
26 Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
27 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
28 Guangxi University, Nanning, China
29 East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
30 School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
31 Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
32 Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Shijiazhuang, China
33 Nankai University, Tianjin, China
34 Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
35 Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
36 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
37 School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
38 Institute of Physics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
39 National United University, Miao-Li, Taiwan
40 Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
41 Millennium Institute for SubAtomic Physics at the High-energy Frontier (SAPHIR), ICN2019_044, ANID, Chile
42 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
43 University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Physics, Jyvaskyla, Finland
44 IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, 91405 Orsay, France
45 Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2i, UMR 5797, F-33170 Gradignan, France
46 IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, F-67037 Strasbourg, France
47 Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
48 SUBATECH, Université de Nantes, IMT Atlantique, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
49 III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
50 Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
51 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Nuclear Physics Institute IKP-2, Jülich, Germany
52 Institute of Physics and EC PRISMA+, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
53 Technische Universität München, München, Germany
54 Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291Darmstadt, Germany
55 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Physikalisches Institut, Tübingen, Germany
56 INFN Catania and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
57 Department of Physics and Earth Science, University of Ferrara and INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
58 INFN Sezione di Milano and Dipartimento di Fisica dell Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
59 INFN Milano Bicocca and University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
60 INFN Milano Bicocca and Politecnico of Milano, Milano, Italy
61 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
62 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università di Padova and INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
63 INFN Sezione di Perugia and Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie dell'Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
64 Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN, Roma, Italy
65 University of Roma Tre and INFN Sezione Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
66 Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Riga, Latvia
67 Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
68 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
69 Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
70 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
71 Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
72 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
73 National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand
74 Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
75 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California, U.S.A.
Author notes
76 Present address: Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, 00144 Rome, Italy
We discuss JUNO sensitivity to the annihilation of MeV dark matter in the galactic halo
via detecting inverse beta decay reactions of electron anti-neutrinos resulting from the
annihilation. We study possible backgrounds to the signature, including the reactor neutrinos,
diffuse supernova neutrino background, charged- and neutral-current interactions of atmospheric
neutrinos, backgrounds from muon-induced fast neutrons and cosmogenic isotopes. A fiducial volume
cut, as well as the pulse shape discrimination and the muon veto are applied to suppress the above
backgrounds. It is shown that JUNO sensitivity to the thermally averaged dark matter annihilation
rate in 10 years of exposure would be significantly better than the present-day best limit set by
Super-Kamiokande and would be comparable to that expected by Hyper-Kamiokande.
