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Various extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of hidden photons kinetically mixing with the ordinary photon. This mixing leads to oscillations between photons and hidden photons, analogous to the observed oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-30 Alessandro Mirizzi , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

We have investigated exclusive photoproduction of light vector mesons ($\omega$, $\rho$ and $\phi$) on the nucleon at low energies. In order to explore the questions concerning the so-called missing nucleon resonances, we first establish…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yongseok Oh , Alexander I. Titov , T. -S. Harry Lee

In the framework of hypercolor scenario of multicomponent Dark Matter, inelastic interaction of high energy photons with the Dark Matter candidates is considered. This reaction results in production of energetic leptons and neutrinos, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-21 Vitaly Beylin

Dark matter particles may bind with nuclei if there exists an attractive force of sufficient strength. We show that a dark photon mediator of mass $\sim (10 - 100)$ MeV that kinetically mixes with Standard Model electromagnetism at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-14 Asher Berlin , Hongwan Liu , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani

We argue that the fixed target experiment PS191 operating on a proton beam of 19.2 GeV at CERN in the eighties was sensitive to hypothetical light scalars produced by mesons and decaying to charged particles. The experiment was dedicated to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Dmitry Gorbunov , Igor Krasnov , Sergey Suvorov

Recent observations, particularly from the HESS Collaboration, have revealed rich Galactic populations of TeV gamma-ray sources, including a collection unseen in other wavelengths. Many of these gamma-ray spectra are well measured up to ~10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew D. Kistler , John F. Beacom

Nuclear power reactors are the most intense man-made source of antineutrino's and have long been recognized as promising sources for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) studies. Its observation and the spectral shape of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Leendert Hayen

We point out that with improving our present knowledge of experimental neutrino physics it will be possible to locate nuclear powered vehicles like submarines, aircraft carriers and UFOs and detect nuclear testing. Since neutrinos cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Panigrahi , U. Sarkar

Thermal MeV neutrino emission from core-collapse supernovae offers a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the neutrino sector. The next generation of neutrino experiments, such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Alonso Carpio , Ali Kheirandish , Kohta Murase

We investigate new physics with light-neutral mediators through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) at low energies. These mediators, with a mass of less than $1$ GeV, are common properties for extensions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mehmet Demirci , M. Fauzi Mustamin

Standard Model neutrinos are not usually considered plausible dark matter candidates because the usual treatment of their decoupling in the early universe implies that their mass must be sufficiently small to make them ``hot'' dark matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gian F. Giudice , Edward W. Kolb , Antonio Riotto , Dmitry V. Semikoz , Igor I. Tkachev

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

Neutrinos are some of the most elusive particles in the standard model, being incredibly common throughout the universe, but interacting with detectors incredibly rarely. Certain properties of neutrinos remain difficult to measure,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-25 Lee Hagaman

Doing astronomy with photons of energies in excess of a GeV has turned out to be extremely challenging. Efforts are underway to develop instruments that may push astronomy to wavelengths smaller than $10^{-14}$~cm by mapping the sky in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Halzen

Neutralinos annihilating in the center of the Sun or the Earth may give rise to a detectable signal of neutrinos. We derive the indirect detection rates for neutrino telescopes in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. Bergstrom , J. Edsjo , P. Gondolo

We demonstrate that next generation high-energy neutrino telescopes may reveal the existence of interactions induced by standard model electroweak instantons. The energy spectrum, the angular distribution, and the quark and lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Tao Han , Dan Hooper

The Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM) facility will generate neutrino beams from both muon and meson decays in a storage ring, providing a neutrino flux known to the percent level. This unprecedented precision enables a rich physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Jack Franklin , Rohan Kamath , Dhruv Pasari , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner , Maria Athina Vogiatzi

Although neutrinos are probably the most abundant particles of the universe their mass is not yet known. Oscillation experiments have proven that at least one of the neutrino mass states has m_{i}>0.05 eV while various interpretations of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-13 Otokar Dragoun , Drahoslav Vénos

We review the status and the results of reactor neutrino experiments, that toe the cutting edge of neutrino research. Short baseline experiments have provided the measurement of the reactor neutrino spectrum, and are still searching for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Lasserre , Henry W. Sobel

The impacts of the light sterile neutrino hypothesis in particle physics and cosmology are reviewed. The observed short baseline neutrino anomalies challenging the standard explanation of neutrino oscillations within the framework of three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Sin Kyu Kang