neutrino floor in eft models
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Neutrino floor in EFT models
Jayden NewsteadArizona State University
collaborators:James Dent, Louis Strigari & Bhaskar Dutta
Coherent Neutrino Scattering Experiment Workshop 2015
Texas A&M
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Introduction & take-away
● Coherent neutrino scattering is an irreducible background to direct dark matter detection experiments
● Complementarity and directional information can be used to mitigate its effect
● Non-standard interactions (not spin-independent/dependent) may provide a way to circumvent the neutrino 'floor'
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Direct detection of WIMPs
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ns
E S1
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Direct detection of WIMPs
11
time
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ns
E S1E
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ns
e-e-
S1
S2
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ns
S1 S2
Nuclear recoil
Electronic recoil
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Background neutrino rate
Ruppin et al. 1408.3581
Both coherent nuclear elastic scattering →at worst practically indistinguishable
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J. L. Newstead - 1505.03117 6
Non-relativistic EFT for DD
S⃗x
S⃗N
i q⃗v⃗
WIMP spinNucleon spin
Momentum transfervelocity
Spin independent
Spin dependent
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J. L. Newstead - 1505.03117 7
Non-relativistic EFT for DD
Xenon-131, m = 50GeV, MB vel. dist.
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EFT fits to neutrino rateFind best fit with a binned Poisson likelihood:
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Fits to neutrino rateBoron-8 Atmospheric
Xe
Ge
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Two regions of interest
Low region – solar neutrino background
High region – atmospheric neutrino background
low high
Neutrino rates in xenon:
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Discovery evolution
Test statistic for discovery:
Include flux uncertainty in likelihood:
For a given exposure, find the cross section which produces a 3σ deviation from the null hypothesis 90% of the time
pn
Xenon-low O1 (SI):
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Discovery evolutionGroup 2 and 3 operators only experience a weak saturation – no strong nu-floor
O1 O6 O10
low
high
pn
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Discovery limits
For saturated exposure, find the cross section which produces a 3σ deviation from the null hypothesis 90% of the time
Test statistic for discovery:
O1 (SI):
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Discovery limitsGroup 2 and 3 operators only experience a weak saturation – no strong nu-floor
O1 O6 O10
prot
onne
utro
n
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Conclusion● Neutrino background is distinguishable from
non-standard WIMP interactions● If the WIMP interacts through a group 2 or 3
operator at leading order, the neutrino background will have a negligible effect on the discovery potential of WIMPs 'below the floor'
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EFT fits to neutrino rate
Boron-8