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

(XENON Collaboration)

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Abstract

We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar B8 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 B8 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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number091301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume126
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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