Axionlike Particles at Future Neutrino Experiments: Closing the Cosmological Triangle

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dc.contributor.authorBrdar, Vedranen
dc.contributor.authorDutta, Bhaskaren
dc.contributor.authorJang, Wooyoungen
dc.contributor.authorKim, Doojinen
dc.contributor.authorShoemaker, Ian M.en
dc.contributor.authorTabrizi, Zahraen
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Adrianen
dc.contributor.authorYu, Jaehoonen
dc.contributor.departmentCenter for Neutrino Physicsen
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-28T14:11:33Zen
dc.date.available2021-07-28T14:11:33Zen
dc.date.issued2021-05-17en
dc.description.abstractAxionlike particles (ALPs) provide a promising direction in the search for new physics, while a wide range of models incorporate ALPs. We point out that future neutrino experiments, such as DUNE, possess competitive sensitivity to ALP signals. The high-intensity proton beam impinging on a target can not only produce copious amounts of neutrinos, but also cascade photons that are created from charged particle showers stopping in the target. Therefore, ALPs interacting with photons can be produced (often energetically) with high intensity via the Primakoff effect and then leave their signatures at the near detector through the inverse Primakoff scattering or decays to a photon pair. Moreover, the high-capability near detectors allow for discrimination between ALP signals and potential backgrounds, improving the signal sensitivity further. We demonstrate that a DUNE-like detector can explore a wide range of parameter space in ALP-photon coupling g(a gamma) vs ALP mass m(a), including some regions unconstrained by existing bounds; the "cosmological triangle" will be fully explored and the sensitivity limits would reach up to m(a) similar to 3-4 GeV and down to g(a gamma) similar to 10(-8) GeV-1.en
dc.description.notesWe would like to thank Alan Bross, Andre de Gouvea, Laura Fields, Vladimir Ivantchenko, Soon Yung Jun, and Shirley Li for useful discussions. We also thank Patrick Huber to be part of this work in the initial phase. J. Y. also acknowledges discussions with several other members of the DUNE Collaboration. B. D. and A. T. acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grant DE-SC0010813. The work of D. K. is supported by DOE under Grant No. DE-FG02-13ER41976/DE-SC0009913/DE-SC0010813. The work of I. M. S. is supported by DOE under the Award No. DE-SC0020250. The work of Z. T. is supported by DOE under the Awards No. DE-SC0020250 and No. DE-SC0020262. W. J. and J. Y. acknowledge the support from DOE under Grant No. DE-SC0011686. Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. Portions of this research were conducted with the advanced computing resources provided by Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing.en
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. Department of Energy (DOE)United States Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010813, DE-SC0011686, DE-FG02-13ER41976/DE-SC0009913/DE-SC0010813, DE-SC0020250, DE-SC0020262]; United States Department of EnergyUnited States Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02-07CH11359]en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.201801en
dc.identifier.eissn1079-7114en
dc.identifier.issn0031-9007en
dc.identifier.issue20en
dc.identifier.other201801en
dc.identifier.pmid34110206en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104422en
dc.identifier.volume126en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleAxionlike Particles at Future Neutrino Experiments: Closing the Cosmological Triangleen
dc.title.serialPhysical Review Lettersen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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