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The IceCube neutrino observatory is a 3D array of photodetectors installed in the Antarctic ice. It consists of 5,160 photomultiplier-tubes spread among 86 vertical strings making a total detector volume of more than a cubic kilometer. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Christoph Tönnis

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

We show that the high-energy cosmic neutrinos seen by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory can be used to probe interactions between neutrinos and the dark sector that cannot be reached by current cosmological methods. The origin of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-09 Carlos A. Argüelles , Ali Kheirandish , Aaron C. Vincent

Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. This paper discusses how a next generation ton-scale dark matter detector could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 A. J. Anderson , J. M. Conrad , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Scholberg , J. Spitz

We explore the prospects of constraining general non standard interactions involving light mediators through elastic neutrino-electron scattering events at the DUNE Near Detector (ND). We furthermore consider the special cases of light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 Pantelis Melas , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Niki Saoulidou

We classify new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) processes induced by $^8$B solar neutrinos in multi-ton xenon dark matter (DM) detectors. Our analysis focuses on vector and scalar interactions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 D. Aristizabal Sierra , Bhaskar Dutta , Shu Liao , Louis E. Strigari

Since many of the dark-sector particles interact with Standard Model (SM) particles in multiple ways, they can appear in experimental facilities where SM particles appear in abundance. In this study, we explore a particular class of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-15 Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Doojin Kim

The CONNIE experiment is located at a distance of 30 m from the core of a commercial nuclear reactor, and has collected a 3.7 kg-day exposure using a CCD detector array sensitive to an $\sim$1 keV threshold for the study of coherent…

We explore the sensitivity to new physics of the recently proposed vIOLETA experiment: a 10 kg Skipper Charged Coupled Device detector deployed 12 meters away from a commercial nuclear reactor core. We investigate two broad classes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 G. Fernandez-Moroni , R. Harnik , P. A. N. Machado , I. Martinez-Soler , Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez , D. Rodrigues , S. Rosauro-Alcaraz

The potential for probing extra neutral gauge boson mediators ($Z^\prime$) from low-energy measurements is comprehensively explored. Our study mainly focuses on $Z^\prime$ mediators present in string-inspired $E_6$ models and left-right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Omar G. Miranda , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Mariam Tórtola , José W. F. Valle

Neutrino cross sections are a critical ingredient in experiments that depend on neutrino scattering to reconstruct event kinematics and infer neutrino characteristics, like NOvA and T2K. An opportunity exists to reduce the 5-10% broad…

We discuss how to constrain new physics in the neutrino sector using multimessenger astronomical observations by the IceCube experiment. The information from time and direction coincidence with an identifiable source is used to improve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-05 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado

The sensitivity to New Physics of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in reactors is reported. Namely, light scalar mediators, sterile neutrino oscillations, unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Alfonso-Pita , L. J. Flores , Eduardo Peinado , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

The recent low-energy electron recoil (ER) results reported by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment have established the most stringent constraints to date on new physics scenarios, specifically for solar axion-like particles with keV-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Mehmet Demirci , M. Fauzi Mustamin

We consider possible detector designs for short-baseline neutrino experiments using neutrino beams produced at the First Muon Collider complex. The high fluxes available at the muon collider make possible high statistics deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

We present a treatment of the high energy scattering of dark Dirac fermions from nuclei, mediated by the exchange of a light vector boson. The dark fermions are produced by proton-nucleus interactions in a fixed target and, after traversing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-10 Davison E. Soper , Michael Spannowsky , Tim M. P. Tait , Chris J. Wallace

The direct detection of particle dark matter through its scattering with nucleons is of fundamental importance to understand the nature of DM. In this work, we propose that the high-energy neutrino detectors like IceCube can be used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-26 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu

In 2013, the IceCube Collaboration reported the first observation of an astrophysical neutrino flux, with energies extending up to the PeV-scale. Over the last decade, this flux has been characterized by measurements in multiple detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Minjin Jeong

As low-threshold dark matter detectors advance in development, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino properties. We predict the enhancement of the event rate of solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Thomas Schwemberger , Tien-Tien Yu

We demonstrate the prompt-delayed signals induced by knockout neutrons from the quasi-elastic scattering in neutrino experiments provides a new avenue for detecting light dark matter. As an illustration, we consider the detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuanlin Gong , Feiran Lin , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu