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The detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) will preciously contribute to gauge the properties of the core-collapse supernova population. We estimate the DSNB event rate in the next-generation neutrino detectors,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 Klaes Moller , Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra , Peter B. Denton

Three types of high rate neutrino detectors for neutrino interaction physics at neutrino factories are discussed. High performance general-purpose detectors might collect event samples on the order of a billion events or more. This could…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce J. King

In this letter we point out the possibility to study new physics in the neutrino sector using dark matter detectors based on liquid xenon. These are characterized by very good spatial resolution and extremely low thresholds for electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Jonathan M. Link

In connection with the question of possible existence of sterile neutrino the laboratory on the basis of SM-3 reactor was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. A prototype of a neutrino detector with scintillator…

For over 40 years, physicists have considered possible uses for neutrino detectors in nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, and fissile materials security. Neutrinos are an attractive fission signature because they readily pass through…

Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Philipp Grothaus , Malcolm Fairbairn , Jocelyn Monroe

LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) has been proposed as a next generation 50 kt liquid scintillator detector. Its large target mass allows to search for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), which was generated by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Randolph Möllenberg , Franz von Feilitzsch , Dominikus Hellgartner , Lothar Oberauer , Marc Tippmann , Jürgen Winter , Michael Wurm , Vincenz Zimmer

We study the prospects for measuring the low-energy components of the solar neutrino flux in future direct dark matter detection experiments. We show that for a depletion of $^{136}$Xe by a factor of 100 relative to its natural abundance,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari , Rafael F. Lang

As dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments continue to improve their sensitivity they will inevitably encounter an irreducible background arising from coherent neutrino scattering. This so-called "neutrino floor" may significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-01 Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov , Samuel J. Witte

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…

Future large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to the water-Cherenkov detectors on the searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and nucleon decay. In a companion paper, we have performed a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-17 Jie Cheng , Yu-Feng Li , Hao-Qi Lu , Liang-Jian Wen

Crystal damage events such as tracks and point defects have been used to record and detect radiation for a long time and recently they have been proposed as a means for dark matter detection. Color centers can be read out optically and we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-22 Bernadette K. Cogswell , Apurva Goel , Patrick Huber

PandaX-4T and XENONnT have recently reported the first measurement of nuclear recoils induced by the $^8$B solar neutrino flux, through the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) channel. As long anticipated, this is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 D. Aristizabal Sierra , N. Mishra , L. Strigari

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure housing the next generation neutrino detectors in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The ARCA detector, which is currently under construction, is optimized for searches for neutrinos from astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Konstantinos Pikounis , Ekaterini Tzamariudaki

New generation dark matter experiments aim at exploring the 10e-9 - 10e-10 pb cross-section region for the WIMP-nucleon scalar interactions. Neutrons produced in the detector components are one of the main factors that can limit detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Tomasello , V. A. Kudryavtsev , M. Robinson

Antineutrinos from nuclear reactors have the potential to be used for reactor monitoring in the mid- to far-field under certain conditions. Antineutrinos are an unshieldable signal and carry information about the reactor core and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-02 Steve T. Wilson , Chris Cotsford , James Armitage , Niamh Holland , Matthew Malek , John. G. Learned

We perform a global fit of dark matter interactions with nucleons using a non-relativistic effective operator description, considering both direct detection and neutrino data. We examine the impact of combining the direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Neal P. Avis Kozar , Pat Scott , Aaron C. Vincent

In this work we present an accurate parameterization of the anti-neutrino flux produced by the isotopes 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu in nuclear reactors. We determine the coefficients of this parameterization, as well as their covariance matrix,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Huber , Thomas Schwetz

Distinguishing a dark matter interaction from an astrophysical neutrino-induced interaction will be major challenge for future direct dark matter searches. In this paper, we consider this issue within non-relativistic Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari

It is considered the detection of neutrinos moving from the opposite directions. The states of the particle of the detector interacting with the neutrinos are connected with the P-transformation. Hence only a half of neutrinos gives…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. L. Khokhlov