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DUNE as the Next-Generation Solar Neutrino Experiment

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-07-27 v3 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), with significant but feasible new efforts, has the potential to deliver world-leading results in solar neutrinos. With a 100 kton-year exposure, DUNE could detect 105\gtrsim 10^5 signal events above 5 MeV electron energy. Separate precision measurements of neutrino-mixing parameters and the 8^8B flux could be made using two detection channels (νe+40\nu_e + \, ^{40}Ar and νe,μ,τ+e\nu_{e,\mu,\tau} + e^-) and the day-night effect (>10σ> 10 \sigma). New particle physics may be revealed through the comparison of solar neutrinos (with matter effects) and reactor neutrinos (without), which is discrepant by 2σ\sim 2 \sigma (and could become 5.6σ5.6 \sigma). New astrophysics may be revealed through the most precise measurement of the 8^8B flux (to 2.5\%) and the first detection of the {\it hep} flux (to 11\%). {\it DUNE is required:} No other experiment, even proposed, has been shown capable of fully realizing these discovery opportunities.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08232,
  title  = {DUNE as the Next-Generation Solar Neutrino Experiment},
  author = {Francesco Capozzi and Shirley Weishi Li and Guanying Zhu and John F. Beacom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08232},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Main text is 5 pages; total with references and Supplemental Material is 21 pages. Matches the version published on PRL. Attached a file with the event rate for each background component. In v3, the only change is to restore the paragraph breaks that disappeared from the Supplemental Material in v2

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