@article{692095f42c13449f82887969f360ea23,
title = "Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE",
abstract = " The MiniBooNE-DM collaboration searched for vector-boson mediated production of dark matter using the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster proton beam in a dedicated run with $1.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons delivered to a steel beam dump. The MiniBooNE detector, 490~m downstream, is sensitive to dark matter via elastic scattering with nucleons in the detector mineral oil. Analysis methods developed for previous MiniBooNE scattering results were employed, and several constraining data sets were simultaneously analyzed to minimize systematic errors from neutrino flux and interaction rates. No excess of events over background was observed, leading to a 90\% confidence limit on the dark-matter cross section parameter, $Y=\epsilon^2\alpha_D(m_\chi/m_V)^4 \lesssim10^{-8}$, for $\alpha_D=0.5$ and for dark-matter masses of $0.01",
keywords = "hep-ex, hep-ph",
author = "Aguilar-Arevalo, {A. A.} and M. Backfish and A. Bashyal and B. Batell and Brown, {B. C.} and R. Carr and A. Chatterjee and Cooper, {R. L.} and P. deNiverville and R. Dharmapalan and Z. Djurcic and R. Ford and Garcia, {F. G.} and Garvey, {G. T.} and J. Grange and Green, {J. A.} and W. Huelsnitz and Astiz, {I. L. de Icaza} and G. Karagiorgi and T. Katori and W. Ketchum and T. Kobilarcik and Q. Liu and Louis, {W. C.} and W. Marsh and Moore, {C. D.} and Mills, {G. B.} and J. Mirabal and P. Nienaber and Z. Pavlovic and D. Perevalov and H. Ray and Roe, {B. P.} and Shaevitz, {M. H.} and S. Shahsavarani and I. Stancu and R. Tayloe and C. Taylor and Thornton, {R. T.} and Water, {R. Van de} and W. Wester and White, {D. H.} and J. Yu",
note = "6 pages, 7 figures, Version consistent with final PRL",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221803",
language = "English",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society (APS)",
}