scholarly journals Ionization yield in silicon for eV-scale electron-recoil processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Ramanathan ◽  
N. Kurinsky
Keyword(s):  
Ionization Yield ◽  
Electron Recoil

scholarly journals Sensitivity of direct detection experiments to neutrino magnetic dipole moments

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Aristizabal Sierra ◽  
R. Branada ◽  
O. G. Miranda ◽  
G. Sanchez Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Magnetic Dipole ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Dipole Moments ◽  
Nuclear Recoil ◽  
Active Volume ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Flux Measurements ◽  
Neutrino Fluxes ◽  
One Year

Abstract With large active volume sizes dark matter direct detection experiments are sensitive to solar neutrino fluxes. Nuclear recoil signals are induced by 8B neutrinos, while electron recoils are mainly generated by the pp flux. Measurements of both processes offer an opportunity to test neutrino properties at low thresholds with fairly low backgrounds. In this paper we study the sensitivity of these experiments to neutrino magnetic dipole moments assuming 1, 10 and 40 tonne active volumes (representative of XENON1T, XENONnT and DARWIN), 0.3 keV and 1 keV thresholds. We show that with nuclear recoil measurements alone a 40 tonne detector could be as competitive as Borexino, TEXONO and GEMMA, with sensitivities of order 8.0 × 10−11μB at the 90% CL after one year of data taking. Electron recoil measurements will increase sensitivities way below these values allowing to test regions not excluded by astrophysical arguments. Using electron recoil data and depending on performance, the same detector will be able to explore values down to 4.0 × 10−12μB at the 90% CL in one year of data taking. By assuming a 200-tonne liquid xenon detector operating during 10 years, we conclude that sensitivities in this type of detectors will be of order 10−12μB. Reducing statistical uncertainties may enable improving sensitivities below these values.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark mesons in light of electron recoil excess at XENON1T

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-Min Choi ◽  
Hyun Min Lee ◽  
Bin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Small Mass ◽  
Density Current ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Color Group ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Relic Density

Abstract We consider a novel mechanism to realize exothermic dark matter with dark mesons in the limit of approximate flavor symmetry in a dark QCD. We introduce a local dark U(1)′ symmetry to communicate between dark mesons and the Standard Model via Z′ portal by partially gauging the dark flavor symmetry with flavor-dependent charges for cancelling chiral anomalies in the dark sector. After the dark local U(1)′ is broken spontaneously by the VEV of a dark Higgs, there appear small mass splittings between dark quarks, consequently, leading to small split masses for dark mesons, required to explain the electron recoil excess in XENON1T by the inelastic scattering between dark mesons and electron. We propose a concrete benchmark model for split dark mesons based on SU(3)L× SU(3)R/SU(3)V flavor symmetry and SU(Nc) color group and show that there exists a parameter space making a better fit to the XENON1T data with two correlated peaks from exothermic processes and satisfying the correct relic density, current experimental and theoretical constraints.

scholarly journals Probing neutrino magnetic moment at the Jinping neutrino experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baobiao Yue ◽  
Jiajun Liao ◽  
Jiajie Ling
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Moment ◽  
Liquid Scintillator ◽  
Solar Neutrinos ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Neutrino Magnetic Moment ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Massive Neutrinos ◽  
Highly Correlated

Abstract Neutrino magnetic moment (νMM) is an important property of massive neutrinos. The recent anomalous excess at few keV electronic recoils observed by the XENON1T collaboration might indicate a ∼ 2.2 × 10−11μB effective neutrino magnetic moment ($$ {\mu}_{\nu}^{\mathrm{eff}} $$ μ ν eff ) from solar neutrinos. Therefore, it is essential to carry out the νMM searches at a different experiment to confirm or exclude such a hypothesis. We study the feasibility of doing νMM measurement with 4 kton fiducial mass at Jinping neutrino experiment (Jinping) using electron recoil data from both natural and artificial neutrino sources. The sensitivity of $$ {\mu}_{\nu}^{\mathrm{eff}} $$ μ ν eff can reach < 1.2 × 10−11μB at 90% C.L. with 10-year data taking of solar neutrinos. Besides the abundance of the intrinsic low energy background 14C and 85Kr in the liquid scintillator, we find the sensitivity to νMM is highly correlated with the systematic uncertainties of pp and 85Kr. Reducing systematic uncertainties (pp and 85Kr) and the intrinsic background (14C and 85Kr) can help to improve sensitivities below these levels and reach the region of astrophysical interest. With a 3 mega-Curie (MCi) artificial neutrino source 51Cr installed at Jinping neutrino detector for 55 days, it could give us a sensitivity to the electron neutrino magnetic moment ($$ {\mu}_{\nu_e} $$ μ ν e ) with < 1.1 × 10−11μB at 90% C.L. . With the combination of those two measurements, the flavor structure of the neutrino magnetic moment can be also probed at Jinping.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark matter for XENON1T excess

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Detector Resolution ◽  
Atomic Excitation ◽  
Microscopic Models ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Two Component

Abstract Motivated by the recent excess in the electron recoil from XENON1T experiment, we consider the possibility of exothermic dark matter, which is composed of two states with mass splitting. The heavier state down-scatters off the electron into the lighter state, making an appropriate recoil energy required for the Xenon excess even for the standard Maxwellian velocity distribution of dark matter. Accordingly, we determine the mass difference between two component states of dark matter to the peak electron recoil energy at about 2.5 keV up to the detector resolution, accounting for the recoil events over ER = 2 − 3 keV, which are most significant. We include the effects of the phase-space enhancement and the atomic excitation factor to calculate the required scattering cross section for the Xenon excess. We discuss the implications of dark matter interactions in the effective theory for exothermic dark matter and a massive Z′ mediator and provide microscopic models realizing the required dark matter and electron couplings to Z′.

Sorption of anthracene, phenanthrene and 9,10-dimethylanthracene on activated acid HZSM-5 zeolite. Effect of sorbate size on spontaneous ionization yield

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (22) ◽  
pp. 5690-5696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Moissette ◽  
Séverine Marquis ◽  
Isabelle Gener ◽  
Claude Brémard
Keyword(s):  
Ionization Yield

scholarly journals Measurement of the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in liquid argon using a two-phase detector with electroluminescence gap

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. C05010-C05010 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bondar ◽  
A. Buzulutskov ◽  
A. Dolgov ◽  
E. Grishnyaev ◽  
V. Nosov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Phase Detector ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Ionization Yield ◽  
Nuclear Recoils

Ion Yields and Fragmentation Processes in the Radiolysis of HCl and DCl

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Carr ◽  
Patricia Christensen ◽  
Derek E. Wilson ◽  
David A. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Electron Impact ◽  
Isotope Effect ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Fast Electron ◽  
Ionization Yield ◽  
Ionization Processes ◽  
Ion Yields ◽  
Fragmentation Processes ◽  
Primary Ionization

The ionization yield from fast electron impact on DCl under radiolysis conditions at 200 to 650 Torr was found to be 1.006 ± 0.023 times that from HCl. Also primary ionization processes were investigated by mass spectrometry. The relative abundance of Cl+ from HCl near threshold at 17.4 eV was about twice that from DCl, but processes with onset at and above 21.0 eV did not exhibit an isotope effect. The interpretation of the results and their implications concerning the mechanism of radiolysis of HCl were discussed.

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