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Title: 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.

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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

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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.
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@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}
}
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