Neutrino and Axion Astronomy with Dark Matter Experiments

TL;DR

Future large dark matter detection experiments can serve as powerful telescopes for neutrino and axion astronomy, offering new insights into astrophysical phenomena and multimessenger signals beyond their original purpose.

Contribution

The paper highlights the potential of dark matter experiments to function as neutrino and axion telescopes, expanding their scientific utility beyond dark matter detection.

Findings

Dark matter experiments can be used for neutrino astronomy.

They can detect relativistic axions from astrophysical sources.

Potential to explore supermassive black hole origins and supernova forecasts.

Abstract

Sensitive dark matter (DM) experiments can be well exploited beyond their designated targets, allowing to explore a breadth of physics topics. As we discuss, future large direct DM detection experiments constitute impressive telescopes, complementary to conventional neutrino detectors. This opens a new window into neutrino astronomy, including puzzles such as the origin of supermassive black holes and topics like supernova forecast. Furthermore, DM experiments can act as effective instruments for multimessenger astronomy. This is well illustrated by exploration of relativistic axions from transient astrophysical sources (e.g. axion star explosions), providing novel signatures as well as possible insights into the axion potential.