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Aristizabal Sierra, D.; De Romeri, V.; Ternes, C.A. |
Title |
Reactor neutrino background in next-generation dark matter detectors |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2024 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
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109 |
Issue |
11 |
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115026 - 7pp |
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Third -generation dark matter detectors will be fully sensitive to the 8 B solar neutrino flux. Because of this, the characterization of such a background has been the subject of extensive analyses over the last few years. In contrast, little is known about the impact of reactor neutrinos. In this paper, we report on the implications of such a flux for dark matter direct -detection searches. We consider five potential detector deployment sites envisioned by the recently established XLZD Consortium: SURF, SNOLAB, Kamioka, LNGS, and Boulby. By using public reactor data, we construct five reactor clusters -involving about 100 currently operating commercial nuclear reactors each -and determine the net neutrino flux at each detector site. Assuming a xenon -based detector and a 50 ton -year exposure, we show that in all cases the neutrino event rate may be sizable, depending on energy recoil thresholds. Of all possible detector sites, SURF and LNGS are those with the smallest reactor neutrino background. On the contrary, SNOLAB and Boulby are subject to the strongest reactor neutrino fluxes, with Kamioka being subject to a more moderate background. Our findings demonstrate that reactor neutrino fluxes should be taken into account in the next round of dark matter searches. We argue that this background may be particularly relevant for directional detectors, provided they meet the requirements we have employed in this analysis. |
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[Sierra, D. Aristizabal] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Casilla 110 V,Ave Espana 1680, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: daristizabal@uliege.be; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:001255433200010 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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6167 |
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Srivastava, R.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
Title |
Testing a lepton quarticity flavor theory of neutrino oscillations with the DUNE experiment |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
Volume |
778 |
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459-463 |
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Oscillation studies play a central role in elucidating at least some aspects of the flavor problem. Here we examine the status of the predictions of a lepton quarticity flavor theory of neutrino oscillations against the existing global sample of oscillation data. By performing quantitative simulations we also determine the potential of the upcoming DUNE experiment in narrowing down the currently ill-measured oscillation parameters theta(23) and delta(CP). We present the expected improved sensitivity on these parameters for different assumptions. |
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[Srivastava, Rahul; Ternes, Christoph A.; Tortola, Mariam; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: rahulsri@ific.uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000426436700063 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3512 |
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Barenboim, G.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M. |
Title |
Neutrinos, DUNE and the world best bound on CPT invariance |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
Volume |
780 |
Issue |
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631-637 |
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Neutrino mass and mixing; Neutrino oscillation; CPT |
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CPT symmetry, the combination of Charge Conjugation, Parity and Time reversal, is a cornerstone of our model building strategy and therefore the repercussions of its potential violation will severely threaten the most extended tool we currently use to describe physics, i.e. local relativistic quantum fields. However, limits on its conservation from the Kaon system look indeed imposing. In this work we will show that neutrino oscillation experiments can improve this limit by several orders of magnitude and therefore are an ideal tool to explore the foundations of our approach to Nature. Strictly speaking testing CPT violation would require an explicit model for how CPT is broken and its effects on physics. Instead, what is presented in this paper is a test of one of the predictions of CPT conservation, i.e., the same mass and mixing parameters in neutrinos and antineutrinos. In order to do that we calculate the current CPT bound on all the neutrino mixing parameters and study the sensitivity of the DUNE experiment to such an observable. After deriving the most updated bound on CPT from neutrino oscillation data, we show that, if the recent T2K results turn out to be the true values of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations, DUNE would measure the fallout of CPT conservation at more than 3 sigma. Then, we study the sensitivity of the experiment to measure CPT invariance in general, finding that DUNE will be able to improve the current bounds on Delta(Delta m(31)(2)) by at least one order of magnitude. We also study the sensitivity to the other oscillation parameters. Finally we show that, if CPT is violated in nature, combining neutrino with antineutrino data in oscillation analysis will produce imposter solutions. |
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[Barenboim, G.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000432187800085 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
no |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3620 |
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de Salas, P.F.; Forero, D.V.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
Title |
Status of neutrino oscillations 2018: 3 sigma hint for normal mass ordering and improved CP sensitivity |
Type |
Journal Article |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
Volume |
782 |
Issue |
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Pages |
633-640 |
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Neutrino mass and mixing; Neutrino oscillation; Solar and atmospheric neutrinos; Reactor and accelerator neutrinos; Neutrino telescopes |
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We present a new global fit of neutrino oscillation parameters within the simplest three-neutrino picture, including new data which appeared since our previous analysis[1]. In this update we include new long-baseline neutrino data involving the antineutrino channel in T2K, as well as new data in the neutrino channel, data from NO nu A, as well as new reactor data, such as the Daya Bay 1230 days electron antineutrino disappearance spectrum data and the 1500 live days prompt spectrum from RENO, as well as new Double Chooz data. We also include atmospheric neutrino data from the IceCube DeepCore and ANTARES neutrino telescopes and from Super-Kamiokande. Finally, we also update our solar oscillation analysis by including the 2055-day day/night spectrum from the fourth phase of the Super-Kamiokande experiment. With the new data we find a preference for the atmospheric angle in the upper octant for both neutrino mass orderings, with maximal mixing allowed at Delta chi(2)= 1.6 (3.2) for normal (inverted) ordering. We also obtain a strong preference for values of the CP phase delta in the range [pi, 2 pi], excluding values close to pi/2at more than 4 sigma. More remarkably, our global analysis shows a hint in favorof the normal mass ordering over the inverted one at more than 3 sigma. We discuss in detail the status of the mass ordering, CP violation and octant sensitivities, analyzing the interplay among the different neutrino data samples. |
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[de Salas, P. F.; Ternes, C. A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: pabferde@ific.uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000438486900094 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3665 |
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Barenboim, G.; Masud, M.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M. |
Title |
Exploring the intrinsic Lorentz-violating parameters at DUNE |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
Volume |
788 |
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308-315 |
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Neutrinos can push our search for new physics to a whole new level. What makes them so hard to be detected, what allows them to travel humongous distances without being stopped or deflected allows to amplify Planck suppressed effects (or effects of comparable size) to a level that we can measure or bound in DUNE. In this work we analyze the sensitivity of DUNE to CPT and Lorentz-violating interactions in a framework that allows a straightforward extrapolation of the bounds obtained to any phenomenological modification of the dispersion relation of neutrinos. |
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[Barenboim, Gabriela] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000455364400041 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3878 |
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