Direct detection experiments as a laboratory for solar neutrino physics

Enero 19, 2023
De 3:00pm hasta 4:00pm

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Patrick Foldenauer
Institution: 
IFT
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

The next generation of dark matter (DM) direct detection (DD) experiments are becoming sensitive to the scattering of solar neutrinos. It will be the first time coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) will be detected from incident solar neutrinos, as opposed to spallation sources. Simultaneously, it will provide a complementary measurement of solar neutrinos via elastic neutrino-electron scattering. In this talk I will highlight the implications of these novel signals as a new means of testing neutrino non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). For this purpose, I will introduce a convenient parameterization of the NSI parameter space that allows for an easy visualisation of the complementarity of different experimental sources. For this purpose I will contrast the sensitivities of DM DD experiments on NSIs with previous results from experimental sources of CEvNS at spallation sources and neutrino oscillation experiments.