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We study the question of whether coherent neutrino scattering can occur on macroscopic scales, leading to a significant increase of the detection cross section. We concentrate on radiative neutrino scattering on atomic electrons (or on free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Evgeny Akhmedov , Giorgio Arcadi , Manfred Lindner , Stefan Vogl

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

We present a new study on the elastic scattering cross section of dark matter (DM) and neutrinos using the latest cosmological data from Planck and large-scale structure experiments. We find that the strongest constraints are set by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm , Julien Lesgourgues

Atmospheric and solar neutrinos scattering coherently off target nuclei will be an important background source for the next generation of direct dark matter searches. In this work we focus on calcium tungstate as target material. For…

Current and most upcoming neutrino detectors can only reach a dark matter annihilation cross section to neutrinos larger than the standard freeze-out value, but they open intriguing detection avenues for non-standard dark matter paradigms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li , Dibyendu Nanda

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments have been setting strong limits on the DM-nucleon scattering cross section at the DM mass above a few GeV, but leave large parameter space unexplored in the low mass region. DM is likely to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-22 Zhan-Hong Lei , Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

Dark matter (DM) annihilations in the Galaxy may produce high energy neutrinos, which can be detected by the neutrino telescopes, for example IceCube, ANTARES and Super-Kamiokande. The neutrinos can also arise from hadronic interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng-fei Yin , Jia Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu

We reconsider the discovery limit of multi-ton direct detection dark matter experiments in the light of recent measurements of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering process. Assuming the cross section to be a parameter entirely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-28 D. Aristizabal Sierra , V. De Romeri , L. J. Flores , D. K. Papoulias

Neutrino-electron scattering can be used to probe neutrino electromagnetic properties at low-threshold underground detectors with good angular and recoil electron energy resolution. We propose to do this using a number of artificial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. G. Miranda , J. Segura , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

We present results for neutrino-nucleon cross sections for energies up to 10$^21$eV, of relevance to the detection of ultrahigh energy galactic and extragalactic neutrinos. At the highest energies, our results are about 2.4 times larger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Raj Gandhi , Chris Quigg , M. H. Reno , Ina Sarcevic

Precision tests of the standard model are essential for constraining models of new physics. Neutrino-electron elastic scattering offers a clean probe into many electroweak effects that are complimentary to the more canonical measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andre de Gouvea , James Jenkins

Non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) affect both their propagation through matter and their detection, with bounds on NSI parameters coming from various astrophysical and terrestrial neutrino experiments. In this paper, we show that NSI…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-31 Bhaskar Dutta , Shu Liao , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

The article describes the research program pursued by the TEXONO Collaboration towards an experiment to observe coherent scattering between neutrinos and the nucleus at the power reactor. The motivations of studying this process are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Henry T. Wong

A high-statistics measurement of the neutrinos from a galactic core-collapse supernova is extremely important for understanding the explosion mechanism, and studying the intrinsic properties of neutrinos themselves. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jia-Shu Lu , Jun Cao , Yu-Feng Li , Shun Zhou

The search for sub-GeV dark matter via scattering on electrons has ramped up in the last few years. Like in the case of dark matter scattering on nuclei, electron-recoil-based searches also face an ultimate background in the form of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 Ben Carew , Ashlee R. Caddell , Tarak Nath Maity , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare

Light (sub-GeV) dark matter has gained increasing interest in terms of direct detection. Accelerated dark matter is a promising candidate that can generate detectable nuclear recoil energy within the sub-GeV range. Because of the large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

The search for neutrinos with energies greater than $10^{17}~$eV is being actively pursued. Although normalization of the dominant neutrino flux is highly uncertain, a floor level is guaranteed by the interactions of extragalactic cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-08 Corinne Berat , Antonio Condorelli , Olivier Deligny , Francois Montanet , Zoe Torres

Strongly-interacting dark matter can be accumulated in large quantities inside the Earth, and for dark matter particles in a few GeV mass range, it can exist in large quantities near the Earth's surface. We investigate the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Yohei Ema , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray

Recent experimental results and developments in the theoretical treatment of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the energy range of 1-10 GeV are discussed. Difficulties in extracting neutrino-nucleon cross sections from neutrino-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-10-01 Jorge G. Morfin , Juan Nieves , Jan T. Sobczyk

We calculate the neutrino-electron elastic scattering cross section, extending the results previously obtained in arXiv:1702.05721v2, in the presence of generic new interactions that take into account all the effects caused by finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 Juan Manuel Márquez , Pablo Roig , Mónica Salinas