Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E Aprile¹, J Aalbers², F Agostini³, S Ahmed Maouloud⁴, M Alfonsi⁵, L Althueser⁶, F D Amaro⁷, S Andaloro⁸, V C Antochi², E Angelino⁹, J R Angevaare¹⁰, F Arneodo¹¹, L Baudis¹², B Bauermeister², L Bellagamba³, M L Benabderrahmane¹¹, A Brown¹², E Brown¹³, S Bruenner¹⁰, G Bruno¹¹, R Budnik¹⁴, C Capelli¹², J M R Cardoso⁷, D Cichon¹⁵, B Cimmino¹⁶, M Clark¹⁷, D Coderre¹⁸, A P Colijn¹⁰, J Conrad², J Cuenca¹⁹, J P Cussonneau²⁰, M P Decowski¹⁰, A Depoian¹⁷, P Di Gangi³, A Di Giovanni¹¹, R Di Stefano¹⁶, S Diglio²⁰, A Elykov¹⁸, A D Ferella^{21

22}, W Fulgione^{9

22}, P Gaemers¹⁰, R Gaior⁴, M Galloway¹², F Gao^{1

23}, L Grandi²⁴, C Hils⁵, K Hiraide²⁵, L Hoetzsch¹⁵, J Howlett¹, M Iacovacci¹⁶, Y Itow²⁶, F Joerg¹⁵, N Kato²⁵, S Kazama²⁶, M Kobayashi¹, G Koltman¹⁴, A Kopec¹⁷, H Landsman¹⁴, R F Lang¹⁷, L Levinson¹⁴, S Liang⁸, S Lindemann¹⁸, M Lindner¹⁵, F Lombardi⁷, J Long²⁴, J A M Lopes⁷, Y Ma²⁷, C Macolino²⁸, J Mahlstedt², A Mancuso³, L Manenti¹¹, A Manfredini¹², F Marignetti¹⁶, T Marrodán Undagoitia¹⁵, K Martens²⁵, J Masbou²⁰, D Masson¹⁸, S Mastroianni¹⁶, M Messina²², K Miuchi²⁹, K Mizukoshi²⁹, A Molinario²², K Morå¹, S Moriyama²⁵, Y Mosbacher¹⁴, M Murra⁶, J Naganoma²², K Ni²⁷, U Oberlack⁵, K Odgers¹³, J Palacio^{15

20}, B Pelssers², R Peres¹², M Pierre²⁰, J Pienaar²⁴, V Pizzella¹⁵, G Plante¹, J Qi²⁷, J Qin¹⁷, D Ramírez García¹⁸, S Reichard¹⁹, A Rocchetti¹⁸, N Rupp¹⁵, J M F Dos Santos⁷, G Sartorelli³, J Schreiner¹⁵, D Schulte⁶, H Schulze Eißing⁶, M Schumann¹⁸, L Scotto Lavina⁴, M Selvi³, F Semeria³, P Shagin⁸, E Shockley^{24

27}, M Silva⁷, H Simgen¹⁵, A Takeda²⁵, C Therreau²⁰, D Thers²⁰, F Toschi¹⁸, G Trinchero⁹, C Tunnell⁸, K Valerius¹⁹, M Vargas⁶, G Volta¹², Y Wei²⁷, C Weinheimer⁶, M Weiss¹⁴, D Wenz⁵, C Wittweg⁶, T Wolf¹⁵, Z Xu¹, M Yamashita²⁶, J Ye^{1

27}, G Zavattini³, Y Zhang¹, T Zhu¹, J P Zopounidis⁴; XENON Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
² Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
⁴ LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut für Physik & Exzellenzcluster PRISMA, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁷ LIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
⁹ INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Torino, Department of Physics, University of Torino and INFN-Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy.
¹⁰ Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam, Science Park, 1098XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
¹¹ New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
¹² Physik-Institut, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
¹³ Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
¹⁵ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini", University of Napoli and INFN-Napoli, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
¹⁸ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁹ Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
²⁰ SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44307, France.
²¹ Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
²² INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
²³ Department of Physics & Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
²⁴ Department of Physics & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
²⁵ Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), the University of Tokyo, Higashi-Mozumi, Kamioka, Hida, Gifu 506-1205, Japan.
²⁶ Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, and Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan.
²⁷ Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
²⁸ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.

PMID: 33750173
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.091301

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Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E Aprile et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2021.

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. 2021 Mar 5;126(9):091301.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.091301.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
² Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
⁴ LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut für Physik & Exzellenzcluster PRISMA, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁷ LIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
⁹ INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Torino, Department of Physics, University of Torino and INFN-Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy.
¹⁰ Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam, Science Park, 1098XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
¹¹ New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
¹² Physik-Institut, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
¹³ Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
¹⁵ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini", University of Napoli and INFN-Napoli, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
¹⁸ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁹ Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
²⁰ SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44307, France.
²¹ Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
²² INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
²³ Department of Physics & Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
²⁴ Department of Physics & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
²⁵ Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), the University of Tokyo, Higashi-Mozumi, Kamioka, Hida, Gifu 506-1205, Japan.
²⁶ Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, and Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan.
²⁷ Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
²⁸ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France.
²⁹ Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.

PMID: 33750173
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.091301

Abstract

We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar ^{8}B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei in XENON1T data, lowering the energy threshold from 2.6 to 1.6 keV. We develop a variety of novel techniques to limit the resulting increase in backgrounds near the threshold. No significant ^{8}B neutrinolike excess is found in an exposure of 0.6 t×y. For the first time, we use the nondetection of solar neutrinos to constrain the light yield from 1-2 keV nuclear recoils in liquid xenon, as well as nonstandard neutrino-quark interactions. Finally, we improve upon world-leading constraints on dark matter-nucleus interactions for dark matter masses between 3 and 11 GeV c^{-2} by as much as an order of magnitude.

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Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

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