First Indication of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT.
Physical review letters
Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Abe, K., Ahmed Maouloud, S., Althueser, L., Andrieu, B., Angelino, E., Anton Martin, D., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bazyk, M., Bellagamba, L., Biondi, R., Bismark, A., Boese, K., Brown, A., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Cai, C., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M., Cimental Chavez, A. P., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cuenca-Garcia, J. J., D'Andrea, V., Daniel Garcia, L. C., Decowski, M. P., Deisting, A., Di Donato, C., Di Gangi, P., Diglio, S., Eitel, K., Elykov, A., Ferella, A. D., Ferrari, C., Fischer, H., Flehmke, T., Flierman, M., Fulgione, W., Fuselli, C., Gaemers, P., Gaior, R., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Ghosh, S., Giacomobono, R., Glade-Beucke, R., Grandi, L., Grigat, J., Guan, H., Guida, M., Gyorgy, P., Hammann, R., Higuera, A., Hils, C., Hoetzsch, L., Hood, N. F., Iacovacci, M., Itow, Y., Jakob, J., Joerg, F., Kaminaga, Y., Kara, M., Kavrigin, P., Kazama, S., Kobayashi, M., Koke, D., Kopec, A., Kuger, F., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Li, I., Li, S., Liang, S., Lin, Y., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Liu, K., Liu, M., Loizeau, J., Lombardi, F., Long, J., Lopes, J. A., Luce, T., Ma, Y., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Mancuso, A., Manenti, L., Marignetti, F., Marrodan Undagoitia, T., Martens, K., Masbou, J., Masson, E., Mastroianni, S., Melchiorre, A., Merz, J., Messina, M., Michael, A., Miuchi, K., Molinario, A., Moriyama, S., Mora, K., Mosbacher, Y., Murra, M., Muller, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Paetsch, B., Pan, Y., Pellegrini, Q., Peres, R., Peters, C., Pienaar, J., Pierre, M., Plante, G., Pollmann, T. R., Principe, L., Qi, J., Qin, J., Ramirez Garcia, D., Rajado, M., Singh, R., Sanchez, L., Dos Santos, J. M., Sarnoff, I., Sartorelli, G., Schreiner, J., Schulte, P., Schulze EiSSing, H., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Semeria, F., Shagin, P., Shi, S., Shi, J., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Takeda, A., Tan, P., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C. D., Tonnies, F., Valerius, K., Vecchi, S., Vetter, S., Villazon Solar, F. I., Volta, G., Weinheimer, C., Weiss, M., Wenz, D., Wittweg, C., Wu, V. H., Xing, Y., Xu, D., Xu, Z., Yamashita, M., Yang, L., Ye, J., Yuan, L., Zavattini, G., Zhong, M., XENON Collaboration
2024; 133 (19): 191002
Abstract
We present the first measurement of nuclear recoils from solar ^{8}B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with the XENONnT dark matter experiment. The central detector of XENONnT is a low-background, two-phase time projection chamber with a 5.9t sensitive liquid xenon target. A blind analysis with an exposure of 3.51t*yr resulted in 37 observed events above 0.5keV, with (26.4_{-1.3}^{+1.4}) events expected from backgrounds. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a statistical significance of 2.73sigma. The measured ^{8}B solar neutrino flux of (4.7_{-2.3}^{+3.6})*10^{6}cm^{-2}s^{-1} is consistent with results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The measured neutrino flux-weighted CEnuNS cross section on Xe of (1.1_{-0.5}^{+0.8})*10^{-39}cm^{2} is consistent with the Standard Model prediction. This is the first direct measurement of nuclear recoils from solar neutrinos with a dark matter detector.
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.191002
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