Neutrino backgrounds to dark matter searches
By J. Monroe, P. Fisher. 2007
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Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as 10{sup -39} cm{sup 2}, while current dark matter experiments have sensitivities to WIMP coherent scattering cross sections 5 orders of magnitude smaller; future experiments plan to have sensitivities to cross sections as small as 10{sup -48} cm{sup 2}. With large target masses and few keV recoil energy detection thresholds, neutral current coherent scattering of solar neutrinos becomes an irreducible background in dark matter searches. In the current zero-background analysis paradigm, neutrino coherent scattering will limit the achievable sensitivity to dark matter scattering cross sections, at the level of 10{sup -46} cm{sup 2}.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Neutrino coherent scattering rates at direct dark matter detectors (2009, background): “Monroe and Fisher [9] have recently determined the coherent scattering rates in future dark matter detectors due to solar, atmospheric, and geo-neutrinos, in particular identifying (8)B solar neutrinos as the source with the largest event rate.”
- Galactic Searches for Dark Matter (2012, background): “There are several sources of neutrinos that are expected to appear in next generation underground detectors that will serve as backgrounds to direct dark matter detection signals (Monroe and Fisher, 2007; Strigari, 2009).”
- Colloquium: Annual modulation of dark matter (2013, background): “However, as the sensitivity of direct detection experiments reaches p;SI 10 47 cm2, astrophysical neutrinos become an irreducible background, so the experiments are no longer zero background (Monroe and Fisher, 2007; Strigari, 2009; Gutlein et al., 2010).”
- Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics (2012, background): “In general, 8B solar neutrinos will pose a nuclear recoil background for low-threshold DM searches (≤3 keV) already at WIMP-nucleon cross sections of ∼10−10 pb (10−46 cm2) [411].”