Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches

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2007-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/0706.3019v2

Phys.Rev.D76:033007,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 8 figures; publication version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.033007

Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as 10^{-39} cm^2, while current dark matter experiments have sensitivities to WIMP coherent scattering cross sections five orders of magnitude smaller; future experiments plan to have sensitivities to cross sections as small as 10^{-48} cm^2. With large target masses and few keV recoil energy detection thresholds, neutral current coherent scattering of solar neutrinos becomes an irreducible background in dark matter searches. In the current zero-background analysis paradigm, neutrino coherent scattering will limit the achievable sensitivity to dark matter scattering cross sections, at the level of 10^{-46} cm^2.

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