24–27 Mar 2025
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425
US/Pacific timezone

A step into the neutrino fog: first indication of solar CEvNS with XENONnT

27 Mar 2025, 10:50
15m
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 darkmatter@physics.ucla.edu

Speaker

Diego Ramírez García (University of Zurich)

Description

The XENONnT detector, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy, utilizes 5.9 tonnes of instrumented liquid xenon in the direct search for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Having achieved unprecedented levels of target purity, it is sensitive to a plethora of signals beyond WIMPs. This talk will present an overview of the experiment and its perfomance in the search of solar B-8 neutrino interactions via the so-called coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) process. This analysis, pursued with a lower detection threshold than the standard WIMP search, yielded the first-ever solar CEvNS indication, with a statistical significance of 2.7σ.

Author

Diego Ramírez García (University of Zurich)

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