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We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

We investigate the scattering of solar neutrinos on electrons and nuclei in dark matter direct detection experiments. The rates of these processes are small in the Standard Model, but can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-10 Joachim Kopp

The recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from solar $^8$B neutrinos in dark matter direct detection experiments has inaugurated the \emph{neutrino fog} era, highlighting the extended potential of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Federica Pompa , Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia , Christoph A. Ternes

Dark matter direct detection experiments have become excellent low-energy neutrino detectors. We present a few novel ideas to probe Beyond the Standard Model physics from neutrinos at these experiments. First, we discuss signatures arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Gonzalo Herrera

Recently, two dark matter direct detection experiments have announced the first indications of nuclear recoils from solar $^8$B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) with xenon nuclei. These results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Christoph A. Ternes

Dark matter detectors will soon be sensitive to Solar neutrinos via two distinct channels: coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and neutrino electron elastic scattering. We establish an analysis method for extracting Solar model properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Billard , L. Strigari , E. Figueroa-Feliciano

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

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 search for interactions from solar $^8$B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei using PandaX-4T commissioning data is reported. The energy threshold of this search is further lowered compared with the previous search for dark…

Neutrino-electron scattering experiments play a crucial role in investigating the non-standard interactions of neutrinos. In certain models, these interactions can include interference terms that may affect measurements. Next-generation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-19 Jong-Chul Park , Gaurav Tomar

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Carlos Martinez Amaya , Matteo Biassoni

Direct-detection experiments sensitive to low-energy electron recoils from sub-GeV dark matter (DM) interactions will also be sensitive to solar neutrinos via coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CNS), since the recoiling nucleus can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-20 Rouven Essig , Mukul Sholapurkar , Tien-Tien Yu

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

Non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) affect both their propagation through matter and their detection, with bounds on NSI parameters coming from various astrophysical and terrestrial neutrino experiments. In this paper, we show that NSI…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-31 Bhaskar Dutta , Shu Liao , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

The PANDAX-4T and XENONnT experiments present indications of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) from ${}^{8}$B solar neutrinos at 2.6$\sigma$ and 2.7$\sigma$, respectively. This constitutes the first observation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Pablo Blanco-Mas , Pilar Coloma , Gonzalo Herrera , Patrick Huber , Joachim Kopp , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

Direct dark matter detection experiments will soon be sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources, including the Sun, the atmosphere, and supernova. This sets an important benchmark for these experiments, and opens up a new window in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Bhaskar Dutta , Louis E. Strigari

Recently, dark matter direct-detection experiments have begun their exploration of the ``neutrino fog,'' providing the first hints of detection of solar neutrinos scattering elastically with the nuclei in the detector. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Kevin J. Kelly , Nityasa Mishra , Louis E. Strigari

As neutrinos become a significant background for projected dark matter experiments, the community will become concerned with determining if events counted in a dark matter experiment are good dark matter candidates or low-energy neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-09 Nicole Hartman , Stephen Sekula

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

New neutrino states \nu_b, sterile under the Standard Model interactions, can be coupled to baryons via the isoscalar vector currents that are much stronger than the Standard Model weak interactions. If some fraction of solar neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Maxim Pospelov
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