Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent 
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 production in the NOvA near detector

Acero, M. A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V.; Анфимов, Н.; Antoshkin, A.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, Pierre; Bambah, Bindu A.; Basher, S.; Bays, K.; Behera, B. R.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R. H.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J. M.; Blair, J. T.; Booth, Alexander; Bolshakova, Anastasia; Bour, P.; Bromberg, C.; Buchanan, N. J.; Butkevich, A.; Campbell, M.; Carroll, Timothy J.; Catano-Mur, E.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B. C.; Chowdhury, Badrul A.; Coan, T. E.; Colo, M.; Corwin, L. A.; Cremonesi, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Davies, G. S.; Derwent, P. F.; Ding, P. F.; Djurcic, Z.; Doyle, D.; Dukes, E. C.; Dung, Phan Minh; Duyang, H.; Edayath, S.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G. J.; Flanagan, W.; Frank, M. J.; Gallagher, H.; Gandrajula, Reddy Pratap; Gao, Feng; Germani, S.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Grichine, V.; Groh, M.; Group, R. C.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howard, B.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Jediny, F.; Johnson, C. A.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I.; Kalra, D.; Kaplan, Daniel M.; Keloth, R.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L. W.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kotelnikov, S.K.; Kreymer, A.; Kullenberg, Ch.; Kumar, Arun; Kuruppu, C.; Kus, V.; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lin, S.; Lokajı́ček, M.; Lozier, J.; Luchuk, S.; Maan, K.; Magill, S.; Mann, W. A.; Маршак, М. Л.; Matveev, V.; Méndez, D. P.; Messier, M. D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Miller, William H.; Mishra, S. R.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, Rukmani; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mulder, K.; Mufson, S.; Murphy, Robert; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nayak, N.; Nelson, J. K.; Nichol, R. J.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nosek, T.; Oksuzian, Y.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, Timothy S.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Pershey, D.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Plunkett, R.; Potukuchi, B.; Principato, C.; Psihas, F.; Raj, V.; Radovic, A.; Rameika, R.; Rebel, B.; Rojas, Pablo Fierro; Ryabov, V. A.; Sachdev, K.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M. C.; Seong, I. S.; Shanahan, P.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, Prabhjot; Singh, V.; Smith, E.; Smolík, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Song, E.; Sousa, A.; Soustružnı́k, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Talaga, R. L.; Tas, P.; Thayyullathil, Ramesh Babu; Thomas, J.; Tiras, E.; Torbunov, D.; Tripathi, J.; Tsaris, Aristeidis; Torun, Y.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vasel, J.; Vinton, L.; Vokáč, P.; Vrba, T.; Wang, B.; Warburton, Thomas; Wetstein, M.; While, M.; Whittington, D.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Wolcott, J.; Yadav, Nitin; Dombara, A. Yallappa; Yang, S.; Yonehara, K.; Yu, Shiqi; Zálešâk, J.; Zamorano, B.; Zwaska, R.

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“…The active volume is a high-granularity sampling calorimeter, characterized by enhanced PID and tracking capabilities. The corresponding mass is approximately 193 × 10 3 kg, for a total volume of 3.9 × 3.9 × 12.67 m 3 [70].…”

Section: B Noνamentioning

confidence: 99%

New production channels for light dark matter in hadronic showers

2020

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Hadronic showers transfer a relevant amount of their energy to electromagnetic subshowers. We show that the generation of "secondary" dark photons in these subshowers is significant and typically dominates the production at low dark photon masses. The resulting dark photons are however substantially less energetic than the ones originating from mesons decay. We illustrate this point both semianalytically and through Monte Carlo simulations. Existing limits on vector-mediator scenarios for light dark matter are updated with the inclusion of the new production processes.

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Section: B Noνamentioning

confidence: 99%

New production channels for light dark matter in hadronic showers

2020

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“…After the collision takes place, neutral stable particles (neutrino, DM species) are produced and then travel 990 m until reach NOνA ND located 14.6 mrad away from the central axis of the neutrino beam. We used a 2.97 × 10 20 N POT of data taking [60][61][62] for the recasting analysis. In Fig.…”

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“…For DUNE, events for signal and background are both simulated. In the case of NOνA and SHiP, only signal events are simulated, the background are taking from the collaboration report[59][60][61][62].…”

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Multicomponent scalar dark matter at high-intensity proton beam experiments

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Castillo,

Palacio

et al. 2021

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We study a scalar dark matter (DM) model with two DM species coupled to the Standard Model (SM) particles via a sub-GeV dark photon. In this model, we find that DM conversion occurs through the dark photon and it plays a fundamental role in setting the observed relic abundance. Furthermore, the two DM candidates can be produced at fixed-target experiments a la Beam-Dump. Detailed predictions for signal and backgrounds are obtained with the help of MadDump and NuWro Montecarlo generators. We explore the potential reach on the sensitivity of DUNE near detector and SHiP experiment, and we find that portions of the parameter space will be within reach of the two experiments.

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“…We present the first measurement of neutrino-induced NC single-π 0 (1π 0 ) production on argon with a mean neutrino energy in the 1 GeV regime, which is also the highest-statistics measurement of this interaction channel on argon to date. This measurement is relevant to the physics programs of experiments that operate in the few-GeV regime (SBN [2], DUNE [3], NOνA [14,15], T2K [16], and Hyper-K [17]), especially those which share argon as a target material. Additionally, this measurement has been used to provide an indirect constraint to the rate of NC 1π 0 backgrounds in MicroBooNE's recent search for a single-photon excess [4].…”

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Measurement of neutral current single $π^0$ production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Abratenko,

Anthony,

Arellano

et al. 2022

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We report the first measurement of π 0 production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of < ∼ 1 GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85-tonne active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to 5.89 × 10 20 protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC π 0 events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the π 0 and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross-sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency-correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the genie, neut, and NuWro neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of 1.243 ± 0.185 (syst) ±0.076 (stat), 0.444 ± 0.098 ± 0.047, and 0.624 ± 0.131 ± 0.075 [10 −38 cm 2 /Ar] for the semi-inclusive NCπ 0 , exclusive NCπ 0 +1p, and exclusive NCπ 0 +0p processes, respectively.

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Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector

Cited by 17 publications

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New production channels for light dark matter in hadronic showers

New production channels for light dark matter in hadronic showers

Multicomponent scalar dark matter at high-intensity proton beam experiments

Measurement of neutral current single $π^0$ production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

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