We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar ^{8}B 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 ^{8}B 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.

Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment / Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Ahmed Maouloud, S., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F.D., Andaloro, S., Antochi, V.C., Angelino, E., Angevaare, J.R., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Bellagamba, L., Benabderrahmane, M.L., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 126:9(2021), p. 091301. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.091301]

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

Iacovacci, M;Mastroianni, S;
2021

Abstract

We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar ^{8}B 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 ^{8}B 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.
2021
Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ^{8}B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment / Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Ahmed Maouloud, S., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F.D., Andaloro, S., Antochi, V.C., Angelino, E., Angevaare, J.R., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Bellagamba, L., Benabderrahmane, M.L., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 126:9(2021), p. 091301. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.091301]
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