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Farzan, Y.; Palomares-Ruiz, S. |
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Dips in the diffuse supernova neutrino background |
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2014 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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014 - 21pp |
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dark matter theory; supernova neutrinos; cosmological neutrinos |
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Scalar (fermion) dark matter with mass in the MeV range coupled to ordinary neutrinos and another fermion (scalar) is motivated by scenarios that establish a link between radiatively generated neutrino masses and the dark matter relic density. With such a coupling, cosmic supernova neutrinos, on their way to us, could resonantly interact with the background (lark matter particles, giving rise to a dip in their redshift-integrated spectra. Current and future neutrino detectors, such as Super-Kamiokande. LENA and HyperKamiokande, could be able to detect this distortion. |
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[Farzan, Yasaman] Inst Res Fundamental Sci IPM, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: yasaman@theory.ipm.ac.ir; |
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Sorel, M. |
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Expected performance of an ideal liquid argon neutrino detector with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light |
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2014 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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9 |
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P10002 - 25pp |
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Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase); Neutrino detectors; Calorimeters; Time projection chambers |
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Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light, that is with light collection efficiencies of about 10(-3). We focus on two key detector performance indicators for neutrino oscillation physics: calorimetric neutrino energy reconstruction and neutrino/antineutrino separation in a non-magnetized detector. Our results are based on detailed simulations, with neutrino interactions modelled according to the GENIE event generator, while the charge and light responses of a large LAr ideal detector are described by the Geant4 and NEST simulation tools. A neutrino energy resolution as good as 3.3% RMS for 4 GeV electron neutrino charged-current interactions can in principle be obtained in a large detector of this type, by using both charge and light information. By exploiting muon capture in argon and scintillation light information to veto muon decay electrons, we also obtain muon neutrino identification efficiencies of about 50%, and muon antineutrino misidentification rates at the few percent level, for few-GeV neutrino interactions that are fully contained. We argue that the construction of large LAr detectors with sufficiently high light collection efficiencies is in principle possible. |
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[Sorel, M.] CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: sorel@ific.uv.es |
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WOS:000345858500045 |
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Lattanzi, M.; Lineros, R.A.; Taoso, M. |
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Connecting neutrino physics with dark matter |
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2014 |
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New Journal of Physics |
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New J. Phys. |
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16 |
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125012 - 19pp |
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neutrinos; dark matter; flavour; majoron; sterile neutrinos |
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The origin of neutrino masses and the nature of dark matter are two in most pressing open questions in modern astro-particle physics. We consider here the possibility that these two problems are related, and review some theoretical scenarios which offer common solutions. A simple possibility is that the dark matter particle emerges in minimal realizations of the seesaw mechanism, as in the majoron and sterile neutrino scenarios. We present the theoretical motivation for both models and discuss their phenomenology, confronting the predictions of these scenarios with cosmological and astrophysical observations. Finally, we discuss the possibility that the stability of dark matter originates from a flavor symmetry of the leptonic sector. We review a proposal based on an A(4) flavor symmetry. |
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[Lattanzi, Massimiliano] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis & Sci Terra, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy, Email: lattanzi@fe.infn.it; |
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1367-2630 |
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WOS:000346823200001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Vincent, A.C.; Fernandez Martinez, E.; Hernandez, P.; Mena, O.; Lattanzi, M. |
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Revisiting cosmological bounds on sterile neutrinos |
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2015 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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006 - 23pp |
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particle physics – cosmology connection; cosmological neutrinos; cosmology of theories beyond the SM |
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We employ state-of-the art cosmological observables including supernova surveys and BAO information to provide constraints on the mass and mixing angle of a non-resonantly produced sterile neutrino species, showing that cosmology can effectively rule out sterile neutrinos which decay between BBN and the present day. The decoupling of an additional heavy neutrino species can modify the time dependence of the Universe's expansion between BBN and recombination and, in extreme cases, lead to an additional matter-dominated period; while this could naively lead to a younger Universe with a larger Hubble parameter, it could later be compensated by the extra radiation expected in the form of neutrinos from sterile decay. However, recombination-era observables including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the shift parameter R-CMB and the sound horizon r(s) from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) severely constrain this scenario. We self-consistently include the full time-evolution of the coupled sterile neutrino and standard model sectors in an MCMC, showing that if decay occurs after BBN, the sterile neutrino is essentially bounded by the constraint sin(2) theta less than or similar to 0.026(m(s)/eV)(-2). |
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[Vincent, Aaron C.] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, IPPP, Durham DH1 3LE, England, Email: aaron.vincent@durham.ac.uk; |
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WOS:000355742500007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Moline, A.; Ibarra, A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S. |
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Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal |
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2015 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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6 |
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005 - 34pp |
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dark matter theory; dark matter simulations; cosmological neutrinos |
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Cosmological observations and cold dark matter N-body simulations indicate that our Universe is populated by numerous halos, where dark matter particles annihilate, potentially producing Standard Model particles. In this paper we calculate the contribution to the diffuse neutrino background from dark matter annihilations in halos at all redshifts and we estimate the future sensitivity to the annihilation cross section of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or ANTARES. We consider various parametrizations to describe the internal halo properties and for the halo mass function in order to bracket the theoretical uncertainty in the limits from the modeling of the cosmological annihilation flux. We find that observations of the cosmic diffuse neutrino flux at large angular distances from the galactic center lead to constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section which are complementary to ( and for some extrapolations of the astrophysical parameters, better than) those stemming from observations of the Milky Way halo, especially for neutrino telescopes not pointing directly to the Milky Way center, as is the case of IceCube. |
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[Moline, Angeles] Univ Tecn Lisboa, Inst Super Tecn, CFTP, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: maria.moline@ist.utl.pt; |
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WOS:000359215400006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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