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The nature of the dark matter of the Universe is yet unknown and most likely is connected with new physics. The search for its composition is under way through direct and indirect detection. Fundamental physical aspects such as energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivone F. M. Albuquerque , Jodi Lamoureux , George F. Smoot

The present uncertainties in the knowledge of the neutrino cross sections for E_nu \sim 1 GeV, that is in the energy range most important for atmospheric and long baseline accelerator neutrinos, are large. These uncertainties do not play a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Lipari

Low-energy neutrinos from the cosmic background are captured by objects in the sky that contain material susceptible of single beta decay. Neutrons, which compose most of a neutron star, capture low-energy neutrinos from the cosmic neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Beatriz Hernandez-Molinero , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Peña Garay

In this letter we point out the possibility to study new physics in the neutrino sector using dark matter detectors based on liquid xenon. These are characterized by very good spatial resolution and extremely low thresholds for electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Jonathan M. Link

The detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by the COHERENT collaboration has set on quantitative grounds the existence of an irreducible neutrino background in direct detection searches of Weakly Interacting Massive Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-06 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

Dark matter annihilations in the Sun to neutrino-antineutrino pairs have striking signatures in neutrino detectors such as IceCube and KM3. We make a model independent study of the signals after propagation of the neutrinos from the center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Vernon Barger , Wai-Yee Keung , Gabe Shaughnessy

Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Andrea Gaspert , Pietro Giampa , David E. Morrissey

As direct dark matter experiments continue to increase in size, they will become sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources. For experiments that do not have directional sensitivity, coherent neutrino scattering (CNS) from several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Billard , L. Strigari , E. Figueroa-Feliciano

The existence of light sterile neutrinos in the eV mass range with relatively large mixing angles with the active neutrinos has been proposed for a variety of reasons, including to improve the fit to the LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-04 Jinrui Huang , Ann E Nelson

The atmospheric neutrino data collected by the IceCube experiment and its low-energy extension DeepCore provide a unique opportunity to probe the neutrino sector of the Standard Model. In the low energy range the experiment have observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-14 Arman Esmaili , Francis Halzen , O. L. G. Peres

The PANDAX-4T and XENONnT experiments present indications of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) from ${}^{8}$B solar neutrinos at 2.6$\sigma$ and 2.7$\sigma$, respectively. This constitutes the first observation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Pablo Blanco-Mas , Pilar Coloma , Gonzalo Herrera , Patrick Huber , Joachim Kopp , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) poses an irreducible background in the search for dark matter-nucleus elastic scatterings, which is commonly known as the neutrino floor. As direct dark matter search experiments keep…

Despite an intense theoretical and experimental effort over the past decade, observations of the extragalactic radio background at multiple frequencies below 10 GHz are not understood in terms of known radio sources, and may represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman

We investigate the sensitivity of a large, underground LArTPC-based neutrino detector to dark matter in the Galactic Center annihilating into neutrinos. Such a detector could have the ability to resolve the direction of the electron in a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-05-24 Matthew R. Buckley , Andrew Mastbaum , Gopolang Mohlabeng

Motivated by the observation of non-zero neutrino masses and the potential for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model, numerous experiments are actively searching for neutrinoless double beta $(0\nu\beta\beta)$ decay. In all of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Noor-Ines Boudjema , Frank F. Deppisch , Antonio Herrero-Brocal , Chayan Majumdar , Supriya Senapati

The complete description of neutrino oscillations require the wave packet treatment. For terrestrial experiments the contribution from the interaction of neutrino with the Earth matter would modify oscillation pattern, i.e., the dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-06 Nan Qin , Bo-Qiang Ma

Three independent predictions follow from postulating the existence of protons co-accelerated with electrons in extragalactic jets (i) multi-TeV gamma ray emission from nearby blazars, (ii) extragalactic cosmic ray protons up to 10^20 eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Mannheim

Neutrino oscillations present the only robust example of experimentally detected physics beyond the standard model. This review discusses the established and several hypothetical beyond standard models neutrino characteristics and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 Daniela Kirilova

New neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model (BSM) have been of much interest in not only particle physics but also cosmology and astroparticle physics. We numerically investigate the time delay distribution of astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-24 Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase

The recent KM3NeT observation of an ${\cal{O}}(100~{\rm PeV})$ event KM3-230213A is puzzling because IceCube with much larger effective area times exposure has not found any such events. We propose a novel solution to this conundrum in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Writasree Maitra , Louis E. Strigari , Ankur Verma