Solar neutrino detection in liquid xenon detectors via charged-current scattering to excited states
| Autor: | Haselschwardt, Scott, Lenardo, Brian, Pirinen, Pekka, Suhonen, Jouni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. D 102, 072009 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.072009 |
| Popis: | We investigate the prospects for real-time detection of solar neutrinos via the charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering process in liquid xenon time projection chambers. We use a nuclear shell model, benchmarked with experimental data, to calculate the cross sections for populating specific excited states of the caesium nuclei produced by neutrino capture on $^{131}$Xe and $^{136}$Xe. The shell model is further used to compute the decay schemes of the low-lying $1^{+}$ excited states of $^{136}$Cs, for which there is sparse experimental data. We explore the possibility of tagging the characteristic de-excitation $\gamma$-rays/conversion electrons using two techniques: spatial separation of their energy deposits using event topology and their time separation using delayed coincidence. The efficiencies in each case are evaluated within a range of realistic detector parameters. We find that the topological signatures are likely to be dominated by radon backgrounds, but that a delayed coincidence signature from long-lived states predicted in $^{136}$Cs may enable background-free detection of CNO neutrino interactions in next-generation experiments with smaller uncertainty than current measurements. We also estimate the sensitivity as a function of exposure for detecting the solar-temperature-induced line shift in $^{7}$Be neutrino emission, which may provide a new test of solar models. Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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