Dark matter detectors as a novel probe for light new physics

Abstract

We explore the prospect of constraining light mediators at the next generation direct detection dark matter detectors through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (EνES) measurements.Taking into account various details like the quenching factor corrections and atomic binding effects, we obtain the model independent projected sensitivities for all possible Lorentz invariant interactions, namely scalar (S), pseudoscalar (P ), vector (V ), axial vector (A) and tensor (T ). For the case of vector interactions, we also focus on two concrete examples: the well-known U (1) B−L and U (1) Lµ−Lτ gauge symmetries.For all interaction channels X = {S, P, V, A, T }, our results imply that the upcoming dark matter detectors have the potential to place competitive constraints, improved by about one order of magnitude compared to existing ones from dedicated CEνNS experiments, XENON1T, beam dump experiments and collider probes.

Detecting Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors

“…[35,36]). In Si(Ge), our deviations extend the cut-off to 20 (5) eV for the high-yield case and 200 (20) eV in the conservative case.…”

“…This has led to a series of efforts to look for generalized BSM interactions of neutrinos with the SM in a variety of detectors. Previous work has focused on detectors with thresholds above O(100 eV) [4,5] or nucleon only interactions [6]. In this work, we make a systematic study of BSM neutrino interactions in low-threshold DM detectors, down to the bandgap energies of O(eV), using a simplified models framework to encode the neutrino non-standard interactions (NSIs).…”

CE$ν$NS as a probe of flavored generalized neutrino interactions

“…neutrino non-standard interactions [34][35][36][37][38][39] as well as sub-GeV dark matter models [40][41][42].…”