Direct detection experiments at the neutrino dipole portal frontier
Abstract
Heavy sterile neutrinos are typically invoked to accommodate the observed neutrino masses, by positing a new Yukawa term connecting these new states to the neutrinos in the electroweak doublet. However, given our ignorance of the neutrino sector, we should explore additional interactions such sterile neutrinos may have with the Standard Model. In this paper, we study the dimension-5 operator which couples the heavy state to a light neutrino and the photon. We find that the recent XENON1T direct detection data can improve the limits on this “neutrino dipole portal” by up to an order of magnitude over previous bounds for tau neutrinos. Future direct detection experiments may be able to extend bounds for all three neutrino flavors down to the level probed by SN1987A.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1506150
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1613139
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019163
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Neutrino interactions; Dark matter detectors
Citation Formats
Shoemaker, Ian M., and Wyenberg, Jason. Direct detection experiments at the neutrino dipole portal frontier. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075010.
Shoemaker, Ian M., & Wyenberg, Jason. Direct detection experiments at the neutrino dipole portal frontier. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075010
Shoemaker, Ian M., and Wyenberg, Jason. Wed .
"Direct detection experiments at the neutrino dipole portal frontier". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075010.
@article{osti_1506150,
title = {Direct detection experiments at the neutrino dipole portal frontier},
author = {Shoemaker, Ian M. and Wyenberg, Jason},
abstractNote = {Heavy sterile neutrinos are typically invoked to accommodate the observed neutrino masses, by positing a new Yukawa term connecting these new states to the neutrinos in the electroweak doublet. However, given our ignorance of the neutrino sector, we should explore additional interactions such sterile neutrinos may have with the Standard Model. In this paper, we study the dimension-5 operator which couples the heavy state to a light neutrino and the photon. We find that the recent XENON1T direct detection data can improve the limits on this “neutrino dipole portal” by up to an order of magnitude over previous bounds for tau neutrinos. Future direct detection experiments may be able to extend bounds for all three neutrino flavors down to the level probed by SN1987A.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075010},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 7,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {4}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075010
Web of Science
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