Published January 1, 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Impact of neutrino background prediction for next generation dark matter xenon detector

  • 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/10.1088/1742-6596/956/1/012014

Additional details

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)