Combining dark matter detectors and electron-capture sources to hunt for new physics in the neutrino sector
dc.contributor.author | Coloma, Pilar | en |
dc.contributor.author | Huber, Patrick | en |
dc.contributor.author | Link, Jonathan M. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Center for Neutrino Physics | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-12T13:37:04Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-12T13:37:04Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11-10 | en |
dc.description.abstract | In this letter we point out the possibility to study new physics in the neutrino sector using dark matter detectors based on liquid xenon. These are characterized by very good spatial resolution and extremely low thresholds for electron recoil energies. When combined with a radioactive nu e source, both features in combination allow for a very competitive sensitivity to neutrino magnetic moments and sterile neutrino oscillations. We find that, for realistic values of detector size and source strength, the bound on the neutrino magnetic moment can be improved by an order of magnitude with respect to the present value. Regarding sterile neutrino searches, we find that most of the gallium anomaly could be explored at the 95% confidence level just using shape information. | en |
dc.description.notes | This work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under award numbers DE-SC0003915 and DE-SC0009973. We would like to thank the authors of ref. [26] for sharing with us their results for the global fit of the reactor and gallium anomalies. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0003915, DE-SC0009973] | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)042 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1029-8479 | en |
dc.identifier.issue | 11 | en |
dc.identifier.other | 42 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88414 | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Springer | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Beyond Standard Model | en |
dc.subject | Neutrino Physics | en |
dc.title | Combining dark matter detectors and electron-capture sources to hunt for new physics in the neutrino sector | en |
dc.title.serial | Journal of High Energy Physics | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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