Solar neutrino detection in a large volume double-phase liquid argon experiment
Davide Franco
(1)
,
C. Giganti
(2)
,
P. Agnes
(1)
,
Luca Agostino
(2)
,
B. Bottino
(3)
,
N. Canci
(4)
,
S. Davini
(5)
,
S. De Cecco
(2)
,
A. Fan
(6)
,
G. Fiorillo
(3)
,
C. Galbiati
(7)
,
A. M. Goretti
(5)
,
E. V. Hungerford
(4)
,
Aldo Ianni
(5)
,
Andrea Ianni
(7)
,
Cécile Jollet
(8)
,
L. Marini
(3)
,
C. J. Martoff
(9)
,
Anselmo Meregaglia
(8)
,
Lucas Pagani
(3)
,
Marco Pallavicini
(3)
,
E. Pantic
(10)
,
A. Pocar
(11)
,
M. Razeti
(12)
,
A. L. Renshaw
(6)
,
B. Rossi
(13)
,
N. Rossi
(5)
,
Y. Suvorov
(5)
,
G. Testera
(14)
,
Alessandra Tonazzo
(1)
,
Haimin Wang
(6)
,
Sandra Zavatarelli
(14)
1
APC (UMR_7164) -
AstroParticule et Cosmologie
2 LPNHE (UMR_7585) - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
3 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
4 Department of Physics, University of Houston
5 LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
7 Princeton University
8 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
9 Department of Physics, Catholic University of America
10 Department of Physics, Le Conte Hall, University of California
11 Physics Department, University of Massachusetts
12 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
13 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
14 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy
2 LPNHE (UMR_7585) - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
3 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
4 Department of Physics, University of Houston
5 LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
7 Princeton University
8 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
9 Department of Physics, Catholic University of America
10 Department of Physics, Le Conte Hall, University of California
11 Physics Department, University of Massachusetts
12 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
13 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
14 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy
P. Agnes
- Fonction : Auteur
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- ORCID : 0000-0001-7117-1251
- IdRef : 230064167
Luca Agostino
- Fonction : Auteur
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Résumé
Precision measurements of solar neutrinos emitted by specific nuclear reaction chains in the Sun are of great interest for developing an improved understanding of star formation and evolution. Given the expected neutrino fluxes and known detection reactions, such measurements require detectors capable of collecting neutrino-electron scattering data in exposures on the order of 1 ktonne-yr, with good energy resolution and extremely low background. Two-phase liquid argon time projection chambers (LAr TPCs) are under development for direct Dark Matter WIMP searches, which possess very large sensitive mass, high scintillation light yield, good energy resolution, and good spatial resolution in all three cartesian directions. While enabling Dark Matter searches with sensitivity extending to the ``neutrino floor'' (given by the rate of nuclear recoil events from solar neutrino coherent scattering), such detectors could also enable precision measurements of solar neutrino fluxes using the neutrino-electron elastic scattering events.