Impact of neutrino background prediction for next generation dark matter xenon detector
Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, S.P. per Sestu, 09042 (Italy)
Description
Next generation direct dark matter detectors will have the sensitivity to detect neutrinos from several sources, among which atmospheric and diffuse supernova neutrinos, through the Standard Model reaction of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Scattering on nucleus. This reaction represents an irreducible background that can be expressed as a limit in the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles parameters plane. This limit is known as the "neutrino floor" and it has been obtained by other authors considering standard hypotheses for the neutrino-nucleus form factor and for the coherence of the scattering process. Since the coherent scattering has never been observed experimentally, it is licit to relax some hypotheses in the differential cross section and to evaluate the effect of such modifications on the neutrino floor prediction. In this contribution, we show a more accurate neutrino-nucleus form factor and we discuss the coherence hypothesis of the process in two extreme cases, namely the total coherence and the total decoherence regime. We derive the neutrino background event rate under these new assumptions, considering xenon as a target. The differences between the number of neutrino events and the implication for the next generation dark matter detectors, such as XENON1T/XENONnT, LZ and DARWIN, are discussed. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/956/1/012014Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 956
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [6 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- 8. Young Researcher Meeting
- Dates
- 29 May - 1 Jun 2017
- Place
- Cagliari (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 52075212
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COHERENT SCATTERING; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS; FORM FACTORS; HYPOTHESIS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SENSITIVITY; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERNOVAE; WIMPS; XENON
- Descriptors DEC
- BINARY STARS; COSMIC RADIATION; CROSS SECTIONS; DETECTION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FLUIDS; GASES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; NONMETALS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES; SCATTERING; STARS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VARIABLE STARS