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Atmospheric neutrinos play a vital role in generating irreducible backgrounds in liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors via their neutral-current (NC) interactions with $^{12}$C nuclei. These interactions may affect a wide range of research…

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The potential to use neutrinos for nuclear non-proliferation has been heavily debated due to the tension between production abundance and low interaction rate. A newly detected neutrino interaction channel, coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-18 Brianna N Ryan , Harold Douglas Pinckney D Pinckney , Michael P Short , Joseph A Formaggio

Event detection rates for WIMP-nucleus interactions are calculated for $^{71}$Ga, $^{73}$Ge, $^{75}$As and $^{127}$I (direct dark matter detectors). The nuclear structure form factors, that are rather independent of the underlying beyond…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 D. K. Papoulias , R. Sahu , T. S. Kosmas , V. K. B. Kota , B. Nayak

We study the prospects for detection of solar and atmospheric neutrino fluxes at future large-scale dark matter detectors through both electron and nuclear recoils. We specifically examine how the detection prospects change for several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Yi Zhuang , Louis E. Strigari , Lei Jin , Samiran Sinha

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

The flux of neutrinos from annihilation of gravitationally captured dark matter in the Sun has significant constraints from direct-detection experiments. However, these constraints are relaxed for inelastic dark matter as inelastic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-31 Bhavesh Chauhan , Mary Hall Reno , Carsten Rott , Ina Sarcevic

Detecting the extremely low-energy neutrinos that form the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) presents many experimental challenges, but pursuing this elusive goal is still worthwhile because these weakly-interacting particles could provide a…

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The study of solar neutrinos presents significant opportunities in astrophysics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. However, the low-energy nature of these neutrinos introduces considerable challenges to isolate them from background…

The use of liquid helium and neon as scintillators for neutrino detection is investigated. Several unique properties of these cryogens make them promising candidates for real-time solar neutrino spectroscopy: large ultraviolet scintillation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. McKinsey , J. M. Doyle

Neutrinos with energy of order 10~MeV, such as from pion decay-at-rest sources, are an invaluable tool for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with nuclei -- previously enabling the first measurement of coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-23 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Jayden L. Newstead , Vishvas Pandey

The physics-based method of forecasting the high energy solar flares (SFs) with the help of the neutrino detectors utilizing the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is considered. The behavior of the neutrino beams…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Oleg Boyarkin , Iren Boyarkina

This article describes CLEAN, an approach to the detection of low-energy solar neutrinos and neutrinos released from supernovae. The CLEAN concept is based on the detection of elastic scattering events (neutrino-electron scattering and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. McKinsey , K. J. Coakley

In a future study of solar neutrinos a special emphasis should be given to the measurement of the fluxes of neutrinos generated in CNO cycle, because this is a direct way to measure with record uncertainty - less than 1% the contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Kopylov , Valery Petukhov

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a water imaging Cherenkov detector. Its usage of 1000 metric tons of D$_{2}$O as target allows the SNO detector to make a solar-model independent test of the neutrino oscillation hypothesis by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. W. P. Poon

Neutrino interaction uncertainties are a limiting factor in current and next-generation experiments probing the fundamental physics of neutrinos, a unique window on physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino-nucleon scattering amplitudes…

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a water imaging Cherenkov detector. Utilising a 1 kilotonne ultra-pure D2O target, it is the first experiment to have equal sensitivity to all flavours of active neutrinos. This allows a solar-model…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Gordon A. McGregor

The detection potential of the active neutrino magnetic moment ($\nu_{a}$MM) and the active sterile transition magnetic moment ($\nu_{s}$MM) of the solar neutrino CE$\nu$NS process in future Dark Matter direct detection experiments is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Yu-Feng Li , Shuo-yu Xia

Over the past five decades, solar neutrino research has been pivotal in driving significant scientific advancements, enriching our comprehension of both neutrino characteristics and solar processes. Despite numerous experiments dedicated to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-08 Samuele Torelli

Presently, there are several experimental setups dedicated to rare event searches, such as dark matter interactions or double beta decay, in the building or commissioning phases. These experiments often use large mass detectors and have…

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