Abstract

We explore the sensitivity to new physics of the recently proposed vIOLETA experiment: a 10 kg Skipper Charged Coupled Device detector deployed 12 meters away from a commercial nuclear reactor core. We investigate two broad classes of models which benefit from the very low energy recoil threshold of these detectors, namely neutrino magnetic moments and light mediators coupled to neutrinos and quarks or electrons. We find that this experimental setup is very sensitive to light, weakly coupled new physics, and in particular that it could probe potential explanations of the event excess observed in XENON1T. We also provide a detailed study on the dependence of the sensitivity on the experimental setup assumptions and on the neutrino flux systematic uncertainties.

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Title
The physics potential of a reactor neutrino experiment with Skipper-CCDs: searching for new physics with light mediators
Author
Fernandez-Moroni, G. 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Harnik, R. 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Machado, P. A. N. 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Martinez-Soler, I. 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F. 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rodrigues, D. 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rosauro-Alcaraz, S. 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA (GRID:grid.417851.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0675 0679) 
2  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA (GRID:grid.417851.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0675 0679); Northwestern University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Evanston, USA (GRID:grid.16753.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2299 3507); Colegio de Física Fundamental e Interdisciplinaria de las Américas (COFI), San Juan, Puerto Rico (GRID:grid.16753.36) 
3  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA (GRID:grid.417851.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0675 0679); Department of Physics, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina (GRID:grid.423606.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1945 2152) 
4  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Física Téorica and Instituto de Física Téorica, IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid, Spain (GRID:grid.5515.4) (ISNI:0000000119578126) 
Pages
127
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Feb 2022
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
10298479
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)127
ProQuest document ID
2629521915
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.