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Direct detection dark matter experiments have proven to be compelling probes for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with both nuclei and atomic electrons, offering complementary information to accelerator and reactor-based neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , M. Sestu

Dosimetry cross sections are fundamental quantities necessary for neutron dosimetry using the neutron activation method. It is worth noting that the uncertainty in cross sections is the major source of uncertainty in calculational…

KM3NeT's detection of a muon track produced by a $\sim 220 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrino provides an opportunity to probe physics at center-of-momentum energies greater than those probed by the Large Hadron Collider or other existing particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Dan Hooper

The nuGeN experiment searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. A 1.41-kg high-purity low-threshold germanium detector surrounded by active and passive shielding is deployed at the…

We report a search on a sub-MeV fermionic dark matter absorbed by electrons with an outgoing active neutrino using the 0.63 tonne-year exposure collected by PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. No significant signals are observed over the…

Adding right-handed neutrinos to the Standard Model is a natural and simple extension and is well motivated on both the theoretical and the experimental side. We extend the Standard Model by adding only one right-handed Majorana neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-30 P. Ballett , T. Boschi , S. Pascoli

Heavy nearly-sterile neutrinos are a common ingredient in extensions of the Standard Model which aim to explain neutrino masses, like for instance in Type I seesaw models, or one of its variants. If the scale of the new Heavy Neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-03 Peter Ballett , Tommaso Boschi , Silvia Pascoli

Absolute neutrino cross section measurements at the GeV scale are ultimately limited by the knowledge of the initial $\nu$ flux. In order to evade such limitation and reach the accuracy that is needed for precision oscillation physics…

We study the probing prospects of cosmic ray boosted dark matter (DM) in the framework of simplified electron-philic dark photon model. Focusing on the dark matter and dark photon masses around keV $\sim $ MeV scale, we consider the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-13 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang

Sterile neutrinos with the mass in the keV range are interesting warm dark matter (WDM) candidates. The restrictions on their parameters (mass and mixing angle) obtained by current X-ray missions (XMM-Newton or Chandra) can only be improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexey Boyarsky , Jan Willem den Herder , Andrey Neronov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The fermionic dark matter (DM) absorption by nucleus or electron targets provides a distinctive signal to search for sub-GeV DM. We consider a Dirac fermion DM charged under a dark gauge group and with the dark magnetic dipole operator. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Tong Li , Jiajun Liao , Rui-Jia Zhang

The planned DUNE experiment will have excellent sensitivity to the vector and axial couplings of the electron to the $Z$-boson via precision measurements of neutrino--electron scattering. We investigate the sensitivity of DUNE-PRISM, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-03 André de Gouvêa , Pedro A. N. Machado , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Zahra Tabrizi

Whether studying neutrinos for their own sake or as a messenger particle, neutrino cross sections are critically important for numerous analyses. On the low energy side, measurements from accelerator experiments reach up to a few 100s of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Sarah Nowicki

The challenges of precision neutrino physics require measurements of absolute neutrino cross sections at the GeV scale with exquisite (1%) precision. This precision is presently limited by the uncertainties on neutrino flux at the source;…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-02 Fabio Pupilli

We point out that the measurement of the $L/E$ distribution of atmospheric neutrino events with sufficient resolution in order to observe the characteristic modulations of neutrino oscillations would provide a unique way to test the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Mannocchi , L. Periale , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , S. Ragazzi , A. Rubbia

Dark matter (DM) particles with mass in the sub-GeV range are an attractive alternative to heavier weakly-interacting massive particles, but direct detection of such light particles is challenging. If however DM-nucleus scattering leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Matthew J. Dolan , Felix Kahlhoefer , Christopher McCabe

XSEN (Cross Section of Energetic Neutrinos) is a small experiment designed to study, for the first time, neutrino-nucleon interactions (including the tau flavour) in the 0.5-1 TeV neutrino energy range. The detector will be installed in the…

Among laboratory probes of dark matter, fixed-target neutrino experiments are particularly well-suited to search for light weakly-coupled dark sectors. In this paper, we show that the DAEdALUS source setup---an 800 MeV proton beam impinging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Jesse Thaler , Matthew Toups

We propose to build the Electromagnetic calorimeter for the HADES di-lepton spectrometer. It will enable to measure the data on neutral meson production from nucleus-nucleus collisions, which are essential for interpretation of dilepton…

Existing xenon dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments can probe the DM-nucleon interaction of DM with a sub-GeV mass through a search for photon emission from the recoiling xenon atom. We show that LUX's constraints on sub-GeV DM,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Christopher McCabe