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We show that future detectors of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray neutrinos will be able to measure neutrino-nucleon cross section at energies as high as 10^{11}GeV or higher. We find that the flux of up-going charged leptons per unit surface…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Kusenko , Thomas Weiler

Neutrinos are key to probing the deep structure of matter and the high-energy Universe. Yet, until recently, their interactions had only been measured at laboratory energies up to about 350 GeV. An opportunity to measure their interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mauricio Bustamante , Amy Connolly

The non-detection of GeV-scale WIMPs has led to increased interest in more general candidates, including sub-GeV dark matter. Direct detection experiments, despite their high sensitivity to WIMPs, are largely blind to sub-GeV dark matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-12 Christopher V. Cappiello , John F. Beacom

The ultrahigh energy range of neutrino physics (above $\sim 10^{7} \, \mathrm{GeV}$), as yet devoid of detections, is an open landscape with challenges to be met and discoveries to be made. Neutrino-nucleon cross sections in that range -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Ivan Esteban , Steven Prohira , John F. Beacom

Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as 10^{-39} cm^2, while current dark matter experiments have sensitivities to WIMP coherent scattering cross sections five orders of magnitude smaller; future experiments plan to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jocelyn Monroe , Peter Fisher

We analyse the direct detection of neutralino dark matter in supergravity scenarios with non-universal soft scalar and gaugino masses. In particular, the neutralino-nucleon cross section is computed and compared with the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. Cerdeno , C. Munoz

The exciting possibility of detecting supernova, solar, and atmospheric neutrinos with coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering detectors is within reach, opening up new avenues to probe New Physics. We explore the possibility of constraining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra

As is well known, dark matter direct detection experiments will ultimately be limited by a "neutrino floor," due to the scattering of nuclei by MeV neutrinos from, e.g., nuclear fusion in the Sun. Here we point out the existence of a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter , Carsten Rott

A search for extremely high energy cosmic neutrinos has been carried out with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The main signals in the search are neutrino-induced energetic charged leptons and their rate depends on the neutrino-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Shigeru Yoshida

We investigate the scattering of solar neutrinos on electrons and nuclei in dark matter direct detection experiments. The rates of these processes are small in the Standard Model, but can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-10 Joachim Kopp

The ultrahigh energy neutrino cross section is well understood in the standard model for neutrino energies up to 10$^{12}$ GeV. Test of neutrino oscillations ($\nu_\mu\leftrightarrow\nu_\tau$) from extragalactic sources of neutrinos are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Sharada Iyer Dutta , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

Cosmic rays scattering with neutrinos produced in supernovae induce a flux of supernova neutrinos boosted to high energies. We calculate the neutrino flux arising from this new mechanism in environments with large cosmic-ray and supernova…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Gonzalo Herrera , Shunsaku Horiuchi

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…

New, neutrinophilic mediators are one potential extension beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Often, studies of neutrinophilic mediator consist of searching for direct evidence of its production and/or its tree-level virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Saeid Foroughi-Abari , Kevin J. Kelly , Yue Zhang

The sensitivity of conventional direct dark matter searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) is ultimately limited by coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), which produces nuclear recoils indistinguishable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 S. Das , V. K. S. Kashyap , B. Mohanty

We identify the maximum cross sections probed by single-scatter ``WIMP" searches in dark matter direct detection. Due to Poisson fluctuations in scatter multiplicity, these ceilings scale logarithmically with mass for heavy dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-26 Nirmal Raj , Biprajit Mondal

Due to its highly suppressed cross section (fermionic) dark matter interacting with the Standard Model via pseudoscalar mediators is expected to be essentially unobservable in direct detection experiments. We consider both a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-29 Giorgio Arcadi , Manfred Lindner , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Werner Rodejohann , Stefan Vogl

Large neutrino event numbers in future experiments measuring coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering allow precision measurements of standard and new physics. We analyze the current and prospective limits of a light scalar particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Yasaman Farzan , Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

We present a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of neutrinos with the dark sector within the simplified model framework. We first derive the exact analytic formulas for the differential scattering cross sections of neutrinos with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Deepak Sathyan , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Celestial objects such as stars and planets might be able to capture a large amount of dark matter particles through dark matter-nucleon scattering. Many previous studies have considered different celestial objects such as the Sun and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee