Elastic and inelastic scattering of neutrinos and weakly interacting massive particles on nuclei

Abstract

The event rates for WIMP-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus scattering processes, expected to be detected in ton-scale rare-event detectors, are investigated. We focus on nuclear isotopes that correspond to the target nuclei of current and future experiments looking for WIMP- and neutrino-nucleus events. The nuclear structure calculations, performed in the context of the deformed shell model, are based on Hartree-Fock intrinsic states with angular momentum projection and band mixing for both the elastic and the inelastic channels. Our predictions in the high-recoil-energy tail show that detectable distortions of the measured/expected signal may be interpreted through the inclusion of the non-negligible incoherent channels

34 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. V2: matches published version in PRC

References in corpus (20)

• Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure
• Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
• DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector
• First dark matter search results from a 4-kg CF${}_3$I bubble chamber operated in a deep underground site
• Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-2L C${}_3$F${}_8$ Bubble Chamber
• Current status of direct dark matter detection experiments
• New Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors
• Spin-Dependent Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle--Nucleon Cross Section Limits from First Data of PandaX-II Experiment
• Nuclear structure aspects of spin-independent WIMP scattering off xenon
• Implications of the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) with Liquid Argon
• Impact of form factor uncertainties on interpretations of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data
• Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the European Spallation Source
• Recent probes of standard and non-standard neutrino physics with nuclei
• Can we overcome the neutrino floor at high masses?
• Sensitivity of the COHERENT Experiment to Accelerator-Produced Dark Matter
• First ground-level laboratory test of the two-phase xenon emission detector RED-100
• Nuclear structure uncertainties in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
• Shell model and deformed shell model spectroscopy of ${}^{62}$Ga
• Deformed shell model results for neutrinoless double beta decay of nuclei in A=60-90 region
• Warm dark matter sterile neutrinos in electron capture and beta decay spectra

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Physics implications of a combined analysis of COHERENT CsI and LAr data
• A Statistical Analysis of the COHERENT Data and Applications to New Physics
• Impact of COHERENT measurements, cross section uncertainties and new interactions on the neutrino floor
• Dark matter detectors as a novel probe for light new physics
• Inelastic nuclear scattering from neutrinos and dark matter
• Probing conventional and new physics at the ESS with coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
• Probing the dark sector with nuclear transition photons
• Search for inelastic WIMP-iodine scattering with COSINE-100
• Incoherent solar-neutrino scattering off the stable Tl-isotopes
• Coherence in scattering of massive weakly interacting neutral particles off nuclei
• Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) event rates for Ge, Zn and Si detector materials