Simulations of 3-Dimensional Recoil Response to Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Events in Directional Direct Dark Matter Detectors

Abstract

Following our earlier work on studying 3-dimensional nuclear recoil response to Galactic Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in directional direct Dark Matter detectors, in this paper, we simulate 3-D coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) events induced by Solar B-8 neutrinos. Our numerical results show that, in contrast to the approximately fixed patterns of the WIMP-induced signals, the characteristic ring-like angular distributions of the nuclear recoil flux/energy of CEvNS events show clearly annual variations along the trajectories of the moving direction of incident Solar neutrinos in different celestial coordinate systems without experimentally distinguishable target dependence.

50 pages, 23 figures, 5 tables