Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Background Sources for the Direct Dark Matter Searches

Details Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Background Sources for the Direct Dark Matter Searches Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Background Sources for the Direct Dark Matter Searches

2010-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5530v3

Astropart.Phys.34:90-96,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

accepted by Astroparticle Physics

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.06.

In experiments for direct dark matter searches, neutrinos coherently scattering off nuclei can produce similar events as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The calculated count rate for solar neutrinos in such experiments is a few events per ton-year. This count rate strongly depends on the nuclear recoil energy threshold achieved in the experiments for the WIMP search. We show that solar neutrinos can be a serious background source for direct dark matter search experiments using Ge, Ar, Xe and CaWO_4 as target materials. To reach sensitivities better than approximatly 10^-10 pb for the elastic WIMP nucleon spin-independent cross section in the zero-background limit, energy thresholds for nuclear recoils should be approximatly >2.05 keV for CaWO_4, >4.91 keV for Ge, >2.89 keV for Xe, and >8.62 keV for Ar as target material. Next-generation experiments should not only strive for a reduction of the present energy thresholds but mainly focus on an increase of the target mass. Atmospheric neutrinos limit the achievable sensitivity for the background-free direct dark matter search to approximatly >10^-12 pb.

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