Search for Light Dark Matter in MiniBooNE
Abstract:  Cosmological observations indicate that our universe contains dark matter (DM), yet we have no measurements of its microscopic properties. Direct detection experiments search for a nuclear recoil interaction and have a low-mass sensitivity edge of order 1 GeV. A path to detect DM with mass below 1 GeV is to search for DM produced in use accelerators. Neutrino detectors are already sensitive to dark matter interactions because of the similarity of the DM and neutrino signatures in the detector. The MiniBooNE experiment, located at Fermilab on the Booster Neutrino Beamline, has searched for dark matter produced from protons interacting in the beam-dump. This talk will go over the analysis and results of this search.