Comment on "Fitting the annual modulation in DAMA with neutrons from muons and neutrinos''
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-12-01 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We estimate rates of solar neutrino-induced neutrons in a DAMA/LIBRA-like detector setup, and find that the needed contribution to explain the annual modulation would require neutrino-induced neutron cross sections several orders of magnitude larger than current calculations indicate. Although these cross sections have never been measured, it is likely that the solar-neutrino effect on DAMA/LIBRA is negligible.
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@article{arxiv.1409.3185,
title = {Comment on "Fitting the annual modulation in DAMA with neutrons from muons and neutrinos''},
author = {P. S. Barbeau and J. I. Collar and Yu. Efremenko and K. Scholberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3185},
year = {2014}
}
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Comment submitted to PRL