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Future multi-tonne Direct Detection experiments will be sensitive to solar neutrino induced nuclear recoils which form an irreducible background to light Dark Matter searches. Indeed for masses around 6 GeV the spectra of neutrinos and Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-10 Jonathan H. Davis

Despite the overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark energy and dark matter, their underlying fundamental physics remains unknown. This review article explores the tantalizing possibility that the dark sector includes new light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Justin Khoury

The aim of this talk is to review near and far future long baseline neutrino experiments as superbeams, beta-Beams and neutrino factories, comparing their sensitivities to the unknown parameters in the neutrino oscillation sector. We focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-30 Olga Mena

The MicroBooNE neutrino experiment at Fermilab is constructing a liquid-argon time-projection chamber for the Booster Neutrino Beam to study neutrino oscillations and interactions with nucleons and nuclei, starting in 2014. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tia Miceli , Vassili Papavassiliou , Stephen Pate , Katherine Woodruff

Neutrinos provide a compelling avenue to explore physics beyond the Standard Model. This proceeding is a brief summary of a plenary talk given at the 12th Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2024). We present a discussion on various topics on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-09 Manibrata Sen

In this review of Dark Matter we review dark matter as sterile neutrinos, fermions, with their present and possibly future detection via neutrino Oscillations. We review the creation of Dark Matter via interactions with the Dark Energy…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Leonard S. Kisslinger , Debasish Das

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…

A nuclear reactor is a powerful tool to study neutrinos and light dark sector particles. Some of the reactor experiments have proven to be extremely useful already. Considering the great interest in the power of intensity frontier to search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Patrick deNiverville , Hye-Sung Lee , Young-Min Lee

It has recently been demonstrated that a program of parasitic electron-beam fixed-target experiments would have powerful discovery potential for dark matter and other new weakly-coupled particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. The first stage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-06 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

Dark matter direct detection experiments are going to touch the neutrino floor with a good chance to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and a probe of neutrino-related new physics ($\nu$NP). In this study, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

We consider a class of theories in which neutrino masses depend significantly on environment, as a result of interactions with the dark sector. Such theories of mass varying neutrinos (MaVaNs) were recently introduced to explain the origin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 David B. Kaplan , Ann E. Nelson , Neal Weiner

Dark matter halos contain a wealth of substructure in the form of subhalos and tidal streams. Enhancements in the dark matter density of these regions leads to enhanced rates in direct detection experiments, as well as enhanced dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-09 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Marc Kamionkowski

Various issues in neutrino phenomenology are reviewed, including: the possibility of large mixing angles in various models for neutrino masses, difficulties for degenerate neutrinos as candidates for hot dark matter, strategies for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis

The existence of cosmic dark matter and neutrino properties are long-standing problems in cosmology and particle physics. These problems have been investigated by using radiation detectors. We will discuss the application of inorganic…

The MiniBooNE Experiment has contributed substantially to beyond standard model searches in the neutrino sector. The experiment was originally designed to test the $\Delta m^2$~1 eV$^2$ region of the sterile neutrino hypothesis by observing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-05-01 Teppei Katori , Janet Conrad

Measuring the unknown neutrino oscillation parameters is one of the main aims in neutrino physics today. The measurement of these parameters is severely affected by the presence of degeneracies in the parameter space. Various neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 Sushant K. Raut

We demonstrate that current and planned underground neutrino experiments could offer a powerful probe of few-MeV dark matter when combined with a nearby high-intensity low-to-medium energy electron accelerator. This experimental setup, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Maxim Pospelov

A broad program of searches at high intensity experiments during the coming decade and beyond will sensitively probe new light mediator particles interacting through the minimal renormalizable vector, Higgs, and neutrino portals as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-30 Brian Batell , Nikita Blinov , Christopher Hearty , Robert McGehee

A review of the recent achievements in high energy neutrino physics and, partly, neutrino astrophysics is presented. It is argued that experiments with high energy neutrinos of natural origin can be used for a search of new physics effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. V. Bugaev

This article presents an overview of neutrino physics research, with highlights on the physics goals, results and interpretations of the current neutrino experiments and future directions and program. It is not meant to be a comprehensive…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry Tsz-King Wong