Beyond the Standard Model interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors
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MrThomas Schwemberger(University of Oregon)
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Description
Abstract:
As dark matter detectors lower thresholds and increase exposures, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino properties. We predict the enhancement of the event rate of solar neutrino scattering from Beyond the Standard Model interactions in low-threshold DM detectors, with a focus on silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, xenon, and argon-based detectors. We consider a set of general neutrino interactions, which fall into five categories: the neutrino magnetic moment as well as interactions mediated by four types of mediators (scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and axial vector), and consider coupling these mediators to either quarks or electrons. Using these predictions, we place constraints on the mass and couplings of each mediator and the neutrino magnetic moment from current low-threshol, as well as projections relevant for future experiments. We show that such low-threshold detectors can improve current constraints by up to two orders of magnitude for vector mediators and one order of magnitude for scalar mediators.
Biography:
I earned my undergraduate degree at the University of California Santa Cruz studying primordial black holes and dark matter under Stefano Profumo in the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. I am now a PhD student at the University of Oregon and Tien-Tien Yu is my advisor.
