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Abstract:
Direct detection experiments were originally designed to search for particle dark matter through its scattering with detector targets. As their exposure increases and energy thresholds decrease, they are also becoming sensitive to solar neutrino signals. The same experiments that search for dark matter are therefore turning into novel neutrino observatories.
In this talk, I will review the emerging role of direct detection experiments in neutrino physics. I will discuss recent developments in the observation of solar neutrinos through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and elastic neutrino-electron scattering, and show how these measurements can be used to probe neutrino properties within and beyond the Standard Model. I will then discuss how light vector mediators provide a natural connection between neutrino new physics and dark matter, allowing direct detection experiments to simultaneously probe both sectors.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Patrick Foldenauer is a theoretical particle physicist working on dark matter, neutrinos, and light new particles. He obtained his PhD from Heidelberg University in 2019 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University. His research combines collider, astroparticle, and direct-detection approaches to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. He is currently a "la Caixa" Junior Leader Fellow and leads a research group on neutrinos and dark sectors at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM-CSIC) in Madrid.
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