scholarly journals A global analysis strategy to resolve neutrino NSI degeneracies with scattering and oscillation data

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Dutta ◽  
Rafael F. Lang ◽  
Shu Liao ◽  
Samiran Sinha ◽  
Louis Strigari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Scattering Data ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Anal Ysis ◽  
Novel Approach

Abstract Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) with the first generation of standard model fermions can span a parameter space of large dimension and exhibit degeneracies that cannot be broken by a single class of experiment. Oscillation experiments, together with neutrino scattering experiments, can merge their observations into a highly informational dataset to combat this problem. We consider combining neutrino-electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering data from the Borexino and COHERENT experiments, including a projection for the upcoming coherent neutrino scattering measurement at the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. We extend the reach of these data sets over the NSI parameter space with projections for neutrino scattering at a future multi-ton scale dark matter detector and future oscillation measurements from atmospheric neutrinos at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In order to perform this global anal- ysis, we adopt a novel approach using the copula method, utilized to combine posterior information from different experiments with a large, generalized set of NSI parameters. We find that the contributions from DUNE and a dark matter detector to the Borexino and COHERENT fits can improve constraints on the electron and quark NSI parameters by up to a factor of 2 to 3, even when relatively many NSI parameters are left free to vary in the analysis.

Strangeness in the Nucleon, Cold Dark Matter in the Universe, and Neutrino Scattering off Liquid Argon

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Papavassiliou ◽  
Daniel Kaplan ◽  
Maury Goodman ◽  
Zack Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
The Universe

scholarly journals Recent highlights from GENIE v3

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Alvarez-Ruso ◽  
Costas Andreopoulos ◽  
Adi Ashkenazi ◽  
Christopher Barry ◽  
Steve Dennis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Model Simulation ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Scattering Data ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
Core Framework

AbstractThe release of GENIE v3.0.0 was a major milestone in the long history of the GENIE project, delivering several alternative comprehensive neutrino interaction models, improved charged-lepton scattering simulations, a range of beyond the Standard Model simulation capabilities, improved experimental interfaces, expanded core framework capabilities, and advanced new frameworks for the global analysis of neutrino scattering data and tuning of neutrino interaction models. Steady progress continued following the release of GENIE v3.0.0. New tools and a large number of new physics models, comprehensive model configurations, and tunes have been made publicly available and planned for release in v3.2.0. This article highlights some of the most recent technical and physics developments in the GENIE v3 series.

scholarly journals DUNE Prospect for Leptophobic Dark Matter

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Sabeeha Naaz ◽  
Jyotsna Singh ◽  
R. B. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Baryon Number ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiments

Highly energetic proton/electron beam fixed-target experiments extend an opportunity to probe the sub-GeV dark matter and associated interactions. In this work, we have explored the sensitivity of DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) for sub-GeV leptophobic dark matter, i.e., this dark matter barely couples with the leptons. Baryon number gauge theory can predict the existence of leptophobic cold dark matter particle candidates. In our work, the dark matter candidate is considered to be scalar whose mass is defined by the symmetry breaking of new baryonic gauge group U 1 B . In this scenario, a light scalar dark matter couples with the standard model candidates via vector boson mediator V B which belongs to the baryonic gauge group U 1 B . This leptophobic dark matter dominantly couples to the quarks. Under this scenario, new parameter space for α B is explored by DUNE for leptophobic dark matter candidates. This new parameter space allowed α B to get a lower value than the present exiting constraint value of α B , i.e., 1 0 − 6 .

scholarly journals Neutrino interaction measurements with the MicroBooNE and ArgoNeuT liquid argon time projection chambers

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Duffy ◽  
A. P. Furmanski ◽  
E. Gramellini ◽  
O. Palamara ◽  
M. Soderberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Scattering Cross ◽  
Time Projection ◽  
Scattering Cross Sections

AbstractPrecise modeling of neutrino interactions on argon is crucial for the success of future experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, which will use liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology. Argon is a large nucleus, and nuclear effects—both on the initial and final-state particles in the interaction—are expected to be large in neutrino–argon interactions. Therefore, measurements of neutrino scattering cross sections on argon will be of particular importance to future DUNE and SBN oscillation measurements. This article presents a review of neutrino–argon interaction measurements from the MicroBooNE and ArgoNeuT collaborations, using two LArTPC detectors that have collected data in the NuMI and Booster Neutrino Beams at Fermilab. Measurements are presented of charged-current muon neutrino scattering in the inclusive channel, the ‘0$$\pi $$ π ’ channel (in which no pions but some number of protons may be produced), and single pion production (including production of both charged and neutral pions). Measurements of electron neutrino scattering are presented in the form of $$\nu _e+\bar{\nu }_e$$ ν e + ν ¯ e  inclusive scattering cross sections.

scholarly journals Detecting dark matter with far-forward emulsion and liquid argon detectors at the LHC

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Batell ◽  
Jonathan L. Feng ◽  
Sebastian Trojanowski
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Liquid Argon

scholarly journals A Review of Basic Energy Reconstruction Techniques in Liquid Xenon and Argon Detectors for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics Using NEST

Instruments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Matthew Szydagis ◽  
Grant A. Block ◽  
Collin Farquhar ◽  
Alexander J. Flesher ◽  
Ekaterina S. Kozlova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Neutrino Physics ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Profile Likelihood ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Liquid Xenon ◽  
Nuclear Recoils ◽  
Available Information

Detectors based upon the noble elements, especially liquid xenon as well as liquid argon, as both single- and dual-phase types, require reconstruction of the energies of interacting particles, both in the field of direct detection of dark matter (weakly interacting massive particles WIMPs, axions, etc.) and in neutrino physics. Experimentalists, as well as theorists who reanalyze/reinterpret experimental data, have used a few different techniques over the past few decades. In this paper, we review techniques based on solely the primary scintillation channel, the ionization or secondary channel available at non-zero drift electric fields, and combined techniques that include a simple linear combination and weighted averages, with a brief discussion of the application of profile likelihood, maximum likelihood, and machine learning. Comparing results for electron recoils (beta and gamma interactions) and nuclear recoils (primarily from neutrons) from the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) simulation to available data, we confirm that combining all available information generates higher-precision means, lower widths (energy resolution), and more symmetric shapes (approximately Gaussian) especially at keV-scale energies, with the symmetry even greater when thresholding is addressed. Near thresholds, bias from upward fluctuations matters. For MeV-GeV scales, if only one channel is utilized, an ionization-only-based energy scale outperforms scintillation; channel combination remains beneficial. We discuss here what major collaborations use.

scholarly journals A novel approach to derive halo-independent limits on dark matter properties

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (09) ◽  
pp. 052-052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesc Ferrer ◽  
Alejandro Ibarra ◽  
Sebastian Wild
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Novel Approach

scholarly journals Exploring the parameter space of modified supergravity for double inflation and primordial black hole formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryotaro Ishikawa ◽  
Sergei V Ketov
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Background Radiation ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Peak Enhancement ◽  
Microwave Background Radiation ◽  
Cosmological Inflation

Abstract We study the parameter space of the effective (with two scalars) models of cosmological inflation and primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the modified (R+ R 2) supergravity. Our models describe double inflation, whose first stage is driven by Starobinsky’s scalaron coming from the R 2 gravity, and whose second stage is driven by another scalar belonging to the supergravity multiplet. The ultra-slow-roll regime between the two stages leads a large peak (enhancement) in the power spectrum of scalar perturbations, which results in efficient PBH formation. Both inflation and PBH formation are generic in our models, while those PBH can account for a significant part or the whole of dark matter. Some of the earlier proposed models in the same class are in tension (over 3σ) with the observed value of the scalar tilt ns , so that we study more general models with more parameters, and investigate the dependence of the cosmological tilts (ns,r) and the scalar power spectrum enhancement upon the parameters. The PBH masses and their density fraction (as part of dark matter) are also calculated. A good agreement (between 2σ and 3σ) with the observed value of ns requires fine tuning of the parameters, and it is only realized in the so-called δ-models. Our models offer the (super)gravitational origin of inflation, PBH and dark matter together, and may be confirmed or falsified by future precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation and PBH-induced gravitational waves.

scholarly journals Dark matter neutrino scattering in the galactic centre with IceCube

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (08) ◽  
pp. C08001
Author(s):  
A. McMullen ◽  
A. Vincent ◽  
C. Arguëlles ◽  
A. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Neutrino Scattering

scholarly journals Constraining the Inert Doublet Model using Vector Boson Fusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dercks ◽  
Tania Robens
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Final States ◽  
Vector Boson Fusion ◽  
Doublet Model ◽  
Inert Doublet Model ◽  
Two Higgs Doublet Model

AbstractIn this work, we use a recast of the Run II search for invisible Higgs decays within Vector Boson Fusion to constrain the parameter space of the Inert Doublet model, a two Higgs doublet model with a dark matter candidate. When including all known theoretical as well as collider constraints, we find that the above can rule out a relatively large part in the $$m_H,\,\lambda _{345}$$mH,λ345 parameter space, for dark scalar masses $$m_H\,\le \,100\,{\mathrm{GeV}}$$mH≤100GeV. Including the latest dark matter constraints, a smaller part of parameter space remains which is solely excluded from the above analysis. We also discuss the sensitivity of monojet searches and multilepton final states from Run II.

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