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Solar neutrinos with CE$\nu$NS and flavor-dependent radiative corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We examine solar neutrinos in dark matter detectors including the effects of flavor-dependent radiative corrections to the CEν\nuNS cross section. Working within a full three-flavor framework, and including matter effects within the Sun and Earth, detectors with thresholds 1\lesssim 1 keV and exposures of 100\sim 100 ton-year could identify contributions to the cross section beyond tree level. The differences between the cross sections for the flavors, combined with the difference in fluxes, would provide a new and unique method to study the muon and tau components of the solar neutrino flux. Flavor-dependent corrections induce a small day-night asymmetry of <3×104< |3 \times10^{-4}| in the event rate, which if ultimately accessible would provide a novel probe of flavor oscillations.

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@article{arxiv.2305.17827,
  title  = {Solar neutrinos with CE$\nu$NS and flavor-dependent radiative corrections},
  author = {Nityasa Mishra and Louis E. Strigari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17827},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 17 figures