Exploring ν signals in dark matter detectors

被引：220

作者：

Harnik, Roni ^{[1
]}

Kopp, Joachim ^{[1
]}

Machado, Pedro A. N. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil

[3] CEA Saclay, Inst Phys Theor, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

来源：

JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2012年 / 07期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 美国能源部;

关键词：

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; solar and atmospheric neutrinos; NEUTRINO ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; LOW-ENERGY FRONTIER; MAGNETIC-MOMENT; SOLAR NEUTRINOS; OSCILLATIONS; LIMITS; SEARCH; MUON;

D O I：

10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/026

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

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 for direct dark matter searches, once these experiments reach the ton scale. Here, we entertain the possibility that neutrino interactions are enhanced by new physics, such as new light force carriers (for instance a "dark photon") or neutrino magnetic moments. We consider models with only the three standard neutrino flavors, as well as scenarios with extra sterile neutrinos. We find that low-energy neutrino-electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering rates can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude, potentially enough to explain the event excesses observed in CoGeNT and CRESST. We also investigate temporal modulation in these neutrino signals, which can arise from geometric effects, oscillation physics, non-standard neutrino energy loss, and direction-dependent detection efficiencies. We emphasize that, in addition to providing potential explanations for existing signals, models featuring new physics in the neutrino sector can also be very relevant to future dark matter searches, where, on the one hand, they can be probed and constrained, but on the other hand, their signatures could also be confused with dark matter signals.

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